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Colorado Springs, CO vs Thornton, CO

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Highlights
- Thornton spends 18.4% more per student than Colorado Springs.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.4% higher in Thornton than in Colorado Springs. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Thornton had 6.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Colorado Springs

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 Colorado Springs, COThornton, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student$12,529$14,840$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,295$11,298$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$5,663$6,182$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.0618.6716.23
 Students per Librarian62110044573
 Students per Counselor274324530
 Grade School Educ.2.4%4.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.7%7.2%6.3%
 High School Educ.93.9%88.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.24.0%22.4%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.10.7%9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.40.2%29.4%33.7%
 Masters Grad.12.0%6.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.3%1.0%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.7%1.0%1.5%

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Reviews for Colorado Springs    198 Reviews

Moved here from san diego. All expenses went up with exception to gas. San diego may not have an affordable housing market, but with all others equal san diego is still  More

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Moved here in the summer from one of the hottest places on earth and my quality of life has gone up dramatically. I can walk outside, there are enormous mountains to  More

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I have been in COS on and off for a couple years, finally making the permanent move several months ago. I have lived in Philly, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Charlotte,  More

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Reviews for Thornton    5 Reviews

Good place. Very suburbany (similar to the Springs). The houses are very small and old and yet still very expensive (albeit cheaper than southern Denver). Actually lots  More

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Over 4 years ago

I like Denver metro, but some cities aren’t too great. Thornton being one of them. Moved here because of highway access, and convenience to DIA for business travel. Am  More

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Over 9 years ago

The quality of life here in not good. The traffic is bad all the time. To try to get to the mountains takes forever! Also most lakes along the front range you can't even  More

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ZIPS IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
80918, 80916, 80909, 80920, 80906, 80917, 80910, 80922, 80923, 80907, 21 total
ZIPS IN THORNTON, COLORADO
80229 80260 80241 80602

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