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

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Highlights
- Santa Monica spends 1.8% less per student than Coralville.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 57.5% higher in Santa Monica than in Coralville. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Santa Monica had 1.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Coralville
 Coralville, IASanta Monica, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,429$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,983  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,492$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.88  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock65654573
 Students per Counselor398  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock6.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.59.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock17.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock4.1%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 Monica    24 Reviews

I moved here to Santa Monica over 10 years ago from Oklahoma City. I was surprised to see that Oklahoma City was ranked higher than Santa Monica on best places. I  More

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I've lived in Santa Monica for over 30 years. It's a Mediterranean climate--sunny and temperate when the rest of the country is under snow! I am walking distance to  More

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I have lived in this city for 4 decades, and it is never been worse than it is now. It is a dangerous disgusting hell hole. Between the crime, the homeless that are not  More

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