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Elko, NV vs Truth or Consequences, NM

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- Truth or Consequences spends 6.0% more per student than Elko.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 20.4% lower in Truth or Consequences than in Elko. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Truth or Consequences had 3.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Elko
 Elko, NVTruth or Consequences, NMUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,048$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,499  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,198$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.16  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock4184573
 Students per Counselor587  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.27.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.18.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock7.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.2%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 Truth Or Consequences    3 Reviews

I've lived here 10 years and was recently thinking about adding to my small rental portfolio...then I saw an episode of Island Life and Hawaii Life and remembered how  More

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Occasional crime sprees (series of break-ins, robberies) interspersed with fairly long periods of quiet. I feel MUCH safe than I would living in Albuquerque and will go  More

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Over 12 years ago

numbers can be deceiving-the stats don't look bad here for a lot of categories....but I lived in T or c for 7 yrs...maybe the air is clean in regard to normal industrial  More

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