2025 Compare Cities Education:
Elko, NV vs Weiser, ID

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Highlights
- Weiser spends 31.3% less per student than Elko.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.5% lower in Weiser than in Elko. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Weiser had 0.6% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Elko
 Elko, NVWeiser, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,095$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,499  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,549$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.16  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock12704573
 Students per Counselor587  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock9.4%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock84.9%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.  Unlock5.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.8%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 Weiser    3 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

I love weiser the community always helps one another out. No one goes without. And it is very safe to raise children  More

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I would only give it one star except that their are some nice people there. There are many problems with this town. The City wants to make it a retirement community.  More

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Over 6 years ago

Only one grocery store no jobs and no public transportation and limited amount of police and their is an issue with racism in this town.it appears that the mayor and  More

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