2025 Compare Cities Education:
Garfield, NJ vs Hazleton, PA

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Highlights
- Hazleton spends 30.9% less per student than Garfield.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 27.1% higher in Hazleton than in Garfield. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Hazleton had 12.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Garfield
 Garfield, NJHazleton, PAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,203$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$20,950  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,977$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.45  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock13644573
 Students per Counselor304  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock13.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock74.8%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.23.2%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock3.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.7%1.5%
Reviews for Garfield    1 Reviews

Over 18 years ago

Garfield used to be a really great town to live in. It's been at a constant rate of decline for the past 20 years. It seems it keeps getting worse and worse every year.  More

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Reviews for Hazleton    6 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

I saw that arts and culture is a listed con for this city. This is simply untrue. This city has a great up and coming Arts  More

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As a longtime resident of the Hazleton Area, I can tell you it is one of the worst places to live in this country and I am sorry that I didn't run the second I graduated  More

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here you can go shopping or you can go to the lakes, not a lot other things to do. locals like to go hunting dear, ride motorcycles. a good thing is that you can drive  More

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