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Council Bluffs, IA vs Fort Collins, CO

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- Fort Collins spends 4.7% less per student than Council Bluffs.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 10.0% higher in Fort Collins than in Council Bluffs. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fort Collins had 10.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Council Bluffs
 Council Bluffs, IAFort Collins, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,339$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,754  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,338$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.96  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock4844573
 Students per Counselor351  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock97.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.20.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock17.5%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.8%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 Fort Collins    71 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Moved my family here a few months ago and have been so disappointed. Housing is dismal - you get low quality and almost nothing for what you’re paying. The house we’re  More

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Over 4 years ago

There is a high cost of living in all of Colorado, and there is a train that runs through the town a honks its horn for about 5 min straight which is very annoying  More

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My family established our home in Larimer County in 1973; this area, Fort Collins, was a quaint, western-ish town we loved to visit. So I’ve visited FoCo multiple times  More

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