2025 Compare Cities Education:
Coralville, IA vs Santa Cruz, CA

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Highlights
- Santa Cruz spends 7.8% less per student than Coralville.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 57.3% higher in Santa Cruz than in Coralville. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Santa Cruz had 0.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Coralville
 Coralville, IASanta Cruz, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$16,364$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,983  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,688$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.88  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock62714573
 Students per Counselor398  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.59.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock18.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock5.5%1.5%
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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Reviews for Santa Cruz    44 Reviews

I lived in the Santa Cruz area for 20 years. UCSC alum. Our kids were born there. There are wonderful things about Santa Cruz, but also many serious problems that we  More

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Over 5 years ago

I have been here for four generations! My kids are the fifth. I guess that should tell you how wonderful it is here, at least for us. It's so cool to have world class  More

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I was born over the hill in San Jose area, and as a kid I loved coming over to the boardwalk. Santa Cruz has always been and always will be a town of diversity,  More

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