2025 Compare Cities Education:
Garfield, NJ vs Michigan City, IN

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Highlights
- Michigan City spends 45.1% less per student than Garfield.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 20.3% higher in Michigan City than in Garfield. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Michigan City had 3.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Garfield
 Garfield, NJMichigan City, INUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,673$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$20,950  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,185$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.45  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8914573
 Students per Counselor304  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.7%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.23.2%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock4.6%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 Michigan City    5 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

I’ve lived in Michigan City for over 10 years now(March 2020) and am a native of Northwest Indiana (40 years.) Michigan City is an older town, on Lake Michigan ESE of  More

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Over 8 years ago

My in-laws live there. I love to visit the place. Nice people. The city has everything, malls, restaurants, cafes. It's very close to the nature. It's cold in the  More

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Over 15 years ago

HUMID and HOT in the June,July, August and bone chilling cold in Dec and Jan. Snow is just crazy...the lake effect snow machine comes right down off lake michigan and  More

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