2025 Compare Cities Education:
Columbia, MD vs Garden Grove, CA

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Highlights
- Garden Grove spends 14.7% less per student than Columbia.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 72.4% higher in Garden Grove than in Columbia. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Garden Grove had 20.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Columbia
 Columbia, MDGarden Grove, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,277$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,615  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,037$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.46  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock163834573
 Students per Counselor331  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock13.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock75.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.62.8%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock3.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.6%1.5%
Reviews for Columbia    28 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

Lived here for a while, beautiful opportunities, pays well, overall nice  More

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Been here 30 years was great at first but once they added a transit bus from baltimore to columbia 15-18 years ago that was the beginning of the end. And about 5 years  More

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Columbia can be described in one word: unequal. The neighborhood I live in, River Hill, is jam-packed with almost million-dollar homes, while the neighborhoods of Long  More

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Reviews for Garden Grove    10 Reviews

I've lived here for over 20 years. City hasn't changed much. Being in the SoCal area, there's plenty of stuff to do around here. Like with all of SoCal, population has  More

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Over 8 years ago

So safe and boring that the police here rarely have anything better to do. At one time, I rented a room in another person's home and decided to put some aluminum foil  More

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Over 13 years ago

This is a very informative  More

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