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Elk Grove, CA vs Boise City, ID

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- Boise City spends 39.1% less per student than Elk Grove.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 21.7% lower in Boise City than in Elk Grove. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 4.8% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Elk Grove
 Elk Grove, CABoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,484  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio22.75  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor641  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.37.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.7%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Elk Grove    15 Reviews

I grew up in the area around Elk Grove and it was a very small rural town up to the year 2000. We moved to ELk grove in 2009 and commuted to work in Sacramento. At  More

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Elk Grove is a very diverse city. A long time ago it use to be very white. Now the white population is about 40%, then next majority race are Asian, then Hispanic,  More

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Over 11 years ago

Our neighborhood is o.k. but it is expensive to live here and the air is oppressive during the summer when it gets hot for a week or more. Days over 95 and nights of 75.  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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