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Ellicott City, MD vs Boise City, ID

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- Boise City spends 48.2% less per student than Ellicott City.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 32.4% higher in Boise City than in Ellicott City. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 1.2% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Ellicott City
 Ellicott City, MDBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,615  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.46  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor331  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.7%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.11.3%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.9%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Ellicott City    4 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

Ellicott City has many great  More

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Plenty of jobs in Washington, DC. and Baltimore areas. Low unemployment. Education and recreation is a top priority with most families here. Relatively high standard of  More

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Over 18 years ago

Ellicott City, MD is west of Baltimore City, north of Washington, DC, east of Frederick, MD. We are close to BWI, and DC airports. There are a couple of big malls for  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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