2025 Compare Cities Education:
Foster City, CA vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 26.8% less per student than Foster City.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 2.1% higher in Rochester than in Foster City. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 1.6% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Foster City
 Foster City, CARochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$15,457  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio19.79  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor431  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.11.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.70.2%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Foster City    4 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

Built on lagoons, great climate, good schools, lots of soccer and other sports for kids, plenty of parking and  More

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Over 18 years ago

A great city to raise a family, safe, great weather around the year, good schools and plenty of recreation. But only if you can afford the hight cost of  More

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Landlords are able to command and receive high rent due to the following attributes: safety, weather and cleanliness of Foster City. The lagoon, waterways and gardens  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 5 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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