2025 Compare Cities Education:
Crystal Lake, IL vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 22.2% less per student than Crystal Lake.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 47.1% higher in Rochester than in Crystal Lake. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 0.0% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Crystal Lake
 Crystal Lake, ILRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,554  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.74  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor578  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.23.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.40.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Crystal Lake    7 Reviews

Over 11 years ago

Great area for recreational boating, fishing and biking. Great place to involve your kids as there are lots of opportunities' for football, baseball and dance. For  More

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Over 12 years ago

I have been living here for 12 years. It's a nice community with friendly people, but I hate the weather. It feels like winter is 6 months long with many overcast days,  More

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Over 12 years ago

A nice place to raise a family, but not a lot of diversity. We are looking to move from here and searching in the Colorado  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 5 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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