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Folsom, CA vs Richmond, CA

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Highlights
- Richmond spends 0.3% less per student than Folsom.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 2.4% lower in Richmond than in Folsom. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Richmond had 14.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Folsom

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 Folsom, CARichmond, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$15,240$15,192$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,484$12,448$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,670$7,565$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio22.7522.2116.23
 Students per Librarian632175184573
 Students per Counselor641584530
 Grade School Educ.2.3%12.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.0%8.4%6.3%
 High School Educ.92.7%79.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.1%19.3%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.9.9%7.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.51.7%32.0%33.7%
 Masters Grad.16.9%8.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.9%1.6%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.0%1.7%1.5%

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Reviews for Folsom    15 Reviews

Over 9 years ago

Folsom has the worst air quality of any city in the Sacramento region per Sac Metro Air Quality Management. Do not move there if u have any respiratory issues, or u like  More

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Over 11 years ago

Folsom is a great little town of about 70,000 people. A half hour from Sacramento, an hour and a half from Tahoe, it sits in a good location at about 320 feet altitude.  More

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I think Folsom is ideal in many ways but it shares Sacramento's lousy air quality (1.5 out of 100 per this site). Sometimes it's worse than Sacramento when a smog  More

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Reviews for Richmond    9 Reviews

I've lived in Richmond since 2014. I find that for proximity to the rest of the East Bay, Marin county, and San Francisco it's a tremendous location. We moved here from  More

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Over 4 years ago

Grown up around all my life, and lived for the past 3 years. Diverse in the worst kinda way (the way that will get you robbed or assaulted). The epicenter of the  More

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I've lived here for more than half of my life, and never want to leave. The weather is nearly perfect. The population is very racially diverse and people for the most  More

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ZIPS IN FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA
95630
ZIPS IN RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA
94804 94801 94805

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