2025 Compare Cities Education:
Fort Collins, CO vs Hood River, OR

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Highlights
- Hood River spends 33.5% more per student than Fort Collins.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 3.2% lower in Hood River than in Fort Collins. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Hood River had 10.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Fort Collins
 Fort Collins, COHood River, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$19,136$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,528  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,980$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio16.46  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5754573
 Students per Counselor173  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock10.4%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock86.8%88.9%
 Some College Educ.17.3%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.56.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock17.2%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.0%1.5%
Reviews for Fort Collins    71 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Moved my family here a few months ago and have been so disappointed. Housing is dismal - you get low quality and almost nothing for what you’re paying. The house we’re  More

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Over 4 years ago

There is a high cost of living in all of Colorado, and there is a train that runs through the town a honks its horn for about 5 min straight which is very annoying  More

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My family established our home in Larimer County in 1973; this area, Fort Collins, was a quaint, western-ish town we loved to visit. So I’ve visited FoCo multiple times  More

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Reviews for Hood River    10 Reviews

I have lived here for 20 years coming from the NY east coast area. This is a lot better in Summer as reflected in the rents which are out of this world -- $200 per  More

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Over 10 years ago

Hood River Oregon is a amazing place to live the winters are awesome lots to do.The two things that i found that sucks about hood river is the cost of living and the  More

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Over 15 years ago

I would like to know how many Hispanics are register voters in the city of The Dalles OR. And how many Hispanics are there in the ciy of The Dalles  More

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