2025 Compare Cities Education:
Cookeville, TN vs Somerset, KY

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Highlights
- Somerset spends 19.8% more per student than Cookeville.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 1.0% higher in Somerset than in Cookeville. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Somerset had 11.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Cookeville
 Cookeville, TNSomerset, KYUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,277$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$8,869  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,241$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.48  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5074573
 Students per Counselor444  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock10.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock78.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.34.8%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.6%1.5%
Reviews for Cookeville    12 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

I lived in Cookeville for around 7 years non consecutively. Don’t expect to go on a walk here. Sidewalks are fairly abundant but they are not well maintained and there  More

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My wife and I both moved here to work for state government. Other people are right, the pay is awful, hovering around $28k for people with masters and doctorates. Rental  More

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Been here for 4-5 years now, crime is on the rise and pay is stagnant, don't look for much over 28k a year in gross income here. Lots of areas are getting metro  More

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Reviews for Somerset    7 Reviews

Over 11 years ago

There is certainly a small town atmosphere here. It seems as if there is a high percentage of the population that wants to get Somerset "on the map", but they want to do  More

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Over 15 years ago

I have lived here since 1989. My family moved me here from Chicago Ill when I was 5 years old. Growing up in this place, I can tell you first hand what you children will  More

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Over 17 years ago

I wanted to post facts on somerset on my previous post because sometimes on bestplaces.net it is just opinions and those can be misleading or one-sided. So I posted  More

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