2025 Compare Cities Education:
Charleston, SC vs Greenville, NC

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Highlights
- Greenville spends 45.9% less per student than Charleston.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 15.3% higher in Greenville than in Charleston. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Greenville had 3.1% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Charleston
 Charleston, SCGreenville, NCUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,248$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,188  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,343$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.91  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock6754573
 Students per Counselor284  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.8%88.9%
 Some College Educ.16.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock13.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.55.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.1%1.5%
Reviews for Charleston    76 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Charleston is beautiful and unique and incredibly special. If you don't believe me, just ask Anthony Bourdain in his Parts Unknown episode - and he was an insightful  More

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Serious lack of health care and "good old boys club" whereby doctors will not even see the patient but diagnose them based on referring doctor. My sister died there for  More

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Over 5 years ago

Boy, has this once beautiful town changed...for the worse! I initially moved here 20 years ago because the people were so nice, no traffic, great choice of hospitals,  More

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Reviews for Greenville    27 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

Greenville is congested, dirty, drug and bug infested. Poverty levels rising because the elite in the city pool their resources to keep the housing prices extremely high  More

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Love this place, it's changed so much over the past 5 to 10 years and is growing in such a great direction. I can't wait to see how it grows in the years to come. Cost  More

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Over 9 years ago

absolutely avoid this place. I was (also) tricked to work at ECU unless someone thinks I am dumb enough to willfully drive 953 miles away from a vested position for a  More

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