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Commerce City, CO vs Castle Rock, CO

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Highlights
- Castle Rock spends 14.4% less per student than Commerce City.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 5.6% lower in Castle Rock than in Commerce City. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Castle Rock had 16.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Commerce City
 Commerce City, COCastle Rock, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$12,699$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,298  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,132$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.67  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9144573
 Students per Counselor324  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock0.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock97.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.25.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.5%1.5%
Reviews for Commerce City    3 Reviews

I've lived here for 12 years. Back then the houses were priced right, you could get a nice smaller house for under 100k. Right now the prices are outrageous, like  More

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I recently moved to Commerce City, specifically the Reunion/Buffalo Mesa area. I love it here - it's a great family community with a wide variety of ethnicities. There  More

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Shacks, Blue collar trash, and crime. Add in traffic, oil refineries, and the smell of fresh pretrol with a truck stop and there you have Commerce City. The name speaks  More

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Reviews for Castle Rock    12 Reviews

My fiance and I moved here in 2018 shortly after finishing college. I work in Colorado Springs and she works in the Denver area, so Castle Rock was practically our only  More

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Over 7 years ago

I have always been mobile for my career, until I moved to Castle Rock. I've lived in in multiple cities in the Midwest including Chicago and have visited nearly every  More

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Over 11 years ago

we have four seasons, and the rockies are only two hrs.away. so for the outdoors enthusist sking or hiking is like no other place you have been or seen it is hard to  More

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