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Elko, NV vs Fayetteville, NC

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Highlights
- Fayetteville spends 23.7% less per student than Elko.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 22.1% lower in Fayetteville than in Elko. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fayetteville had 9.5% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Elko
 Elko, NVFayetteville, NCUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,111$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,499  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,015$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.16  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5574573
 Students per Counselor587  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.27.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.18.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.0%1.5%
Reviews for Elko    4 Reviews

Elko is like all small Nevada towns - limited in many things and the only change as far as the eye can see are over priced housing starts, drugs and crime. I really like  More

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Over 16 years ago

Spent my teen years in Elko & my parents still live there. It is extremely isolated. Life revolves around the mining industry. The old ranching families that live  More

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Over 17 years ago

Elko has an economy that is fairly typical of mining areas, that is, boom and bust. I've lived here for about 16 or so years. It's boomed tremendously twice and busted  More

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Reviews for Fayetteville    46 Reviews

I have lived in Fayetteville for 21 years and I LOVE IT! Fayetteville is a military town and that is what brought my husband and I here originally. Since January 2000  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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