2024 Compare Cities Education:
Gallup, NM vs Fountain, CO

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Highlights
- Fountain spends 20.3% less per student than Gallup.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 6.4% lower in Fountain than in Gallup. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fountain had 11.9% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Gallup
 Gallup, NMFountain, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student$15,714$12,529$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$14,250$10,295$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$8,163$5,663$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.2217.0616.23
 Students per Librarian63386214573
 Students per Counselor453274530
 Grade School Educ.5.7%2.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.5%2.8%6.3%
 High School Educ.84.9%95.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.1%30.6%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.8.6%12.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.22.4%30.7%33.7%
 Masters Grad.7.4%7.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.2%0.6%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.3%0.9%1.5%
Reviews for Gallup    7 Reviews

Over 9 years ago

I have lived in Gallup for over 20 years and find this area very interesting. The tourist just blowing through see the vagrants & general run-down appearance, turn up  More

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Over 12 years ago

Gallup NM has great places to hike around and minimal cultural diversity. I found most of the white folk ( I am caucasion) to be super red neck.. I am having a hard time  More

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Over 13 years ago

I have to argue with the so called statistics. There are 3 kinds of lies and this is one of them in my view. I am/was an ER nurse and we see the worst a society has to  More

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Reviews for Fountain    4 Reviews

Junky, Trashy, Transient, Rental Town, with no infrastructure or proactive government. Take exit 128 off I-25 and Drive around to see for yourself. Especially Old  More

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After living in 3 states and in Denver,Springs and Pueblo(within CO), I find Fountain to be a quiet, safe and cost effective place to live. It has moderate temps and  More

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Over 15 years ago

Fountain is a great place to live. Housing is affordable and not segregated (all the condo's not in one part of town and all of the big homes in another). The city  More

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