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Friendswood, TX vs Boise City, ID

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Highlights
- Boise City spends 30.2% less per student than Friendswood.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 16.3% higher in Boise City than in Friendswood. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 0.2% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Friendswood
 Friendswood, TXBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,827  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.32  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor409  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.3%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.48.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.3%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Friendswood    3 Reviews

I grew up here and this is a very safe but maybe considered boring place by some. There are a lot of fun thing close by that you can do. Challenger 7 park, Galveston,  More

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We lived in Friendswood, Texas for over 5 years. Our g-son graduated from high school in 2020 there and we are very pleased with the teacher to student ratio, the  More

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Growing up in Friendswood over the last 40+ years, the changes are apparent every where. My home is where there used to be rice fields and we watched planes crop dust.   More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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