2025 Compare Cities Education:
Cincinnati, OH vs Niagara Falls, NY

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Highlights
- Niagara Falls spends 43.0% more per student than Cincinnati.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 22.7% lower in Niagara Falls than in Cincinnati. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Niagara Falls had 0.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Cincinnati
 Cincinnati, OHNiagara Falls, NYUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$24,345$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,237  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,103$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.52  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9094573
 Students per Counselor394  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.17.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock12.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.39.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock7.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.7%1.5%
Reviews for Cincinnati    113 Reviews

A native buckeye, I currently split my time between Cincinnati and Charleston, SC. We were considering leaving Cincinnati, but after reviewing other cities, I think  More

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Over 4 years ago

Lived in Cinti. and on UC faculty for over 40 years. The best move of my life is to have retired and left Cinti. for Tucson. In academics OSU far outranks UC and the  More

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What Bert has to say is a bit dated. The downtown area has made a great comeback over the past 10-15 years with Over the Rhine once being ranked America’s most dangerous  More

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Reviews for Niagara Falls    6 Reviews

Niagara Falls is a place where we are careful about saying ‘things are looking up’ because we’ve said that before and whatever big project promised falls through or just  More

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Over 15 years ago

Niagara Falls has very high crime and a steady increase in gang activity. Unemployment is very high, there is a lot of pollution and winters are too long. The falls  More

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Niagara Falls is plagued by contamination for radioactive waste and dumping, high crime high taxes and corrupt politicians. One would figure that a smaller town  More

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