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Council Bluffs, IA vs Carbondale, IL

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- Carbondale spends 26.8% more per student than Council Bluffs.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 17.8% lower in Carbondale than in Council Bluffs. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Carbondale had 8.1% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Council Bluffs
 Council Bluffs, IACarbondale, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$19,079$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,754  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,644$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.96  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock12404573
 Students per Counselor351  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.20.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock17.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock5.5%1.5%
Reviews for Council Bluffs    4 Reviews

It's an okay city. Nothing special really. All the fun things to do and good restaurants are across the river in Omaha. I will say CB has some pretty good recreational  More

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Over 9 years ago

Quietly over the years this community has taken untold amounts of riverfront casino tax dollars and converted them into hundreds and hundreds of community improvement  More

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Over 15 years ago

here in council bluffs iowa, we have low crime rate. There have been an increase in shopping areas in the last 2 years and lots of new resturants and three casinos. It  More

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Reviews for Carbondale    7 Reviews

I've lived in C'dale for over 30 years. I got an excellent education here - Giant City School was great, though fairly insular and not very diverse (among its drawbacks  More

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Over 17 years ago

I like Carbondale. It is relaxing and an easy way to go about getting a college degree. It has its ups and downs, mainly with the people in the town not recognizing the  More

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All of the comments are negative here and seem to me to be misleading. The idea that you have to have a lot of money in Carbondale is ridiculous. The price of cultural  More

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