2024 Compare Cities Education:
Dover, DE vs Upper Darby, PA

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Highlights
- Upper Darby spends 34.6% more per student than Dover.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 2.2% lower in Upper Darby than in Dover. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Upper Darby had 0.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Dover
 Dover, DEUpper Darby, PAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$16,576$22,319$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$14,812$17,270$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$8,755$10,892$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.3814.0616.23
 Students per Librarian12066004573
 Students per Counselor357323530
 Grade School Educ.2.2%4.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.1%6.5%6.3%
 High School Educ.88.8%89.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.6%19.2%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.10.1%9.0%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.25.9%32.2%33.7%
 Masters Grad.9.1%7.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.2%1.4%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.3%0.9%1.5%
Reviews for Dover    9 Reviews

Key points are "an excellent quality of life and a low crime rate" as well as low taxes. Delaware attracts the highest percentage of retirees, plus people of all other  More

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Dover, DE is a great placed to live. I work at OCEAN, which is a non profit organization that sponsors high school exchange students. We had foreign students reside in  More

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Over 6 years ago

Dover, like any town other than Newark, is very unsophisticated, boring, unfriendly, and uneducated. I've resided in many states and Delaware will be the state that I  More

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Reviews for Upper Darby    1 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

I like Upper Darby I've been there for TWO YEARS it's time for a change I just would like to move to another  More

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