2024 Compare Cities Education:
Franklin, TN vs Portland, OR

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Highlights
- Portland spends 46.4% more per student than Franklin.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.3% higher in Portland than in Franklin. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Portland had 2.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Franklin
 Franklin, TNPortland, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student$13,371$19,574$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,272$14,240$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$6,635$7,835$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.7817.2516.23
 Students per Librarian3996144573
 Students per Counselor386299530
 Grade School Educ.1.8%3.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.6%3.6%6.3%
 High School Educ.95.6%93.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%19.4%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.6.5%6.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.64.3%51.9%33.7%
 Masters Grad.18.0%13.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.3%4.3%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.7%2.4%1.5%
Reviews for Franklin    27 Reviews

After visiting here for a week in the summer, I fell in love with the city! Lots of my friends in Florida already moved here from New Port Richey and Wesley Chapel. I  More

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I've lived in Tennessee all my life. I have lived in west,east and middle Tennessee. By far this is the best place I have lived. We have been in Franklin for 8 years. It  More

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I love that this is a greatly diverse community with a large African American and Hispanic community around West Main St./Nachez (I'm addicted to Pueblo Real Mexican  More

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Reviews for Portland    386 Reviews

I lived in Portland for 19 years (I've also lived in Boise, ID, the Bay Area, Austin, TX and now Nampa, ID). It drives me nuts when people try to give a large city a  More

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One of the best cities in America. Food scene is the best in the world. Weather is preferable over places where you have the same weather year round. I enjoy the  More

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I moved from Houston to Portland about a year ago. I remember reading the reviews on here and it making me second guess moving before I did, so I wanted to come back and  More

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