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Granite City, IL vs Long Beach, CA

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Highlights
- Long Beach spends 25.0% more per student than Granite City.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 43.7% higher in Long Beach than in Granite City. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Long Beach had 9.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Granite City
 Granite City, ILLong Beach, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,429$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,569  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,492$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.21  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock65654573
 Students per Counselor1054  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock11.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock80.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.28.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.14.2%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock8.2%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.6%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.3%1.5%
Reviews for Granite City    2 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

Fair, Cost of living average , close to St. Louis Attractions, air quality poor, steal mill causes lots of respiratory illness. Water qualty used to be above average til  More

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Over 17 years ago

Granite City is not a bad place to live. The smell of the steel plants is annoying sometimes. There is rarely a day go by that you don't here sirens going down the  More

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Reviews for Long Beach    45 Reviews

Local born and bred. This place is going down the drain. Crime is up, housing is up, yuppies finding nothing wrong with it since they want to validate spending 3k on a 2  More

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Angelique · 
Over 6 years ago

I love Long Beach. I especially shoreline village and the aquarium of the pacific. The only big problem here (for me) is crime. Otherwise, nice  More

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Over 8 years ago

The cost of living is extremely high and there are way too many apartments or multi unit homes which have no parking. But with everyone living on top of each other it  More

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