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Columbus, GA vs Coralville, IA

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Highlights
- Coralville spends 50.8% more per student than Columbus.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 7.3% lower in Coralville than in Columbus. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Coralville had 8.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Columbus
 Columbus, GACoralville, IAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,755$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,404  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,669$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.97  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5004573
 Students per Counselor388  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock96.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.27.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock6.0%1.5%
Reviews for Columbus    9 Reviews

I have lived here for 6.5 years. In-town is cute with nice restaurants and sometimes music. It hasn’t realized it’s full potential though. Houses are still reasonably  More

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no,nonono NEVER MOVE HERE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. as someone who is almost out of highschool and i can finally go to my homecountry after 10 years of begging to move, never  More

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This once beautiful and safe town is now crime ridden and trashy courtesy of Theresa Tomlinson’s 2 terms as mayor. Even if you live in the north end you are no longer  More

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Reviews for Coralville    2 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

We are thinking of relocating from Florida. We are looking for a great place to raise our family. We also have lived here our entire 30years and would like not to have  More

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Over 19 years ago

Nice to the extreme. clean, safe, family oriented with fairly progressive local mucipal gov't. quite a bedroom community to University of Iowa and much of the renting  More

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