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Decatur, IL vs Boise City, ID

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Highlights
- Boise City spends 35.8% less per student than Decatur.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 12.6% higher in Boise City than in Decatur. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 5.8% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Decatur
 Decatur, ILBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,532  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.82  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor771  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.23.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.21.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.9%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Decatur    14 Reviews

I was sent here by the company I worked for in the '90's and was not initially impressed with midwest living. However, over the years I got used to living in the "Pride  More

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I grew up in Decatur and I still have family there, but it depresses me to see what it has become. It has a high unemployment rate, many business have closed or are run  More

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Over 14 years ago

If you enjoy drinking & driving, Decatur's fifteen drive-thru liquor windows, three times the # of drive-thru's than the ten largest cities in Illinois, COMBINED, will  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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