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Chatham, MA vs Poughkeepsie, NY

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Highlights
- Poughkeepsie spends 16.9% more per student than Chatham.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 17.5% higher in Poughkeepsie than in Chatham. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Poughkeepsie had 10.2% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Chatham

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 Chatham, MAPoughkeepsie, NYUnited States
 Expend. per Student$24,285$28,380$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$20,730$24,643$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$12,927$16,100$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio10.612.4516.23
 Students per Librarian3239054573
 Students per Counselor329347530
 Grade School Educ.0.8%4.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.6%7.8%6.3%
 High School Educ.97.6%87.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.17.7%19.2%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.5.2%8.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.62.6%29.6%33.7%
 Masters Grad.19.4%10.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree5.2%1.7%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.6%1.1%1.5%

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Over 6 years ago

I have mixed feelings about Poughkeepsie because there are equally as many things I love about that town as there are things I hate about it so I'm just going to write a  More

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Over 11 years ago

Prices are high here. housing is easily 25-30percent of our monthly  More

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Over 12 years ago

It'd be great if jobs were available. This city is OK but COL is so much higher in NY than where I was raised in South Maybe I should head  More

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