2025 Compare Cities Education:
Hampstead, MD vs Charleston, SC

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Highlights
- Charleston spends 22.3% more per student than Hampstead.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 8.0% lower in Charleston than in Hampstead. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Charleston had 0.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Hampstead
 Hampstead, MDCharleston, SCUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$18,933$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$14,465  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,530$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.04  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5054573
 Students per Counselor321  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.8%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.39.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.9%1.5%
Reviews for Hampstead    2 Reviews

Over 14 years ago

Hampstead has great schools as is true for all Carroll County  More

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I'm coming up from Raleigh NC, and I'm looking to move to either Manchester MD or Hampstead MD because of my job. Which is more affordable and which has better and safer  More

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Reviews for Charleston    76 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Charleston is beautiful and unique and incredibly special. If you don't believe me, just ask Anthony Bourdain in his Parts Unknown episode - and he was an insightful  More

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Serious lack of health care and "good old boys club" whereby doctors will not even see the patient but diagnose them based on referring doctor. My sister died there for  More

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Over 5 years ago

Boy, has this once beautiful town changed...for the worse! I initially moved here 20 years ago because the people were so nice, no traffic, great choice of hospitals,  More

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