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Fayetteville, NC vs Chesapeake, VA

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Highlights
- Chesapeake spends 28.2% more per student than Fayetteville.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 3.0% higher in Chesapeake than in Fayetteville. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Chesapeake had 1.1% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Fayetteville
 Fayetteville, NCChesapeake, VAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$12,959$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,614  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,649$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.14  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock6984573
 Students per Counselor307  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock93.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.29.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.27.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.2%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.7%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.1%1.5%
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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Reviews for Chesapeake    33 Reviews

I lived here in Virginia near the Cedar Rd. not so far from Tidewater Community college. If you want a great place to live to raise children, its Chesapeake  More

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I live around this area currently, in the "Hampton Roads". Which consists of Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, and Chesapeake. We're  More

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I was born in Hampton Roads and lived there for more than 65 years. We lived in the city of Chesapeake for three years from 2014-2017. Frankly, we were very glad to  More

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