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Happy Valley, OR vs Castle Rock, CO

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Highlights
- Castle Rock spends 32.2% less per student than Happy Valley.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 7.3% lower in Castle Rock than in Happy Valley. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Castle Rock had 1.4% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Happy Valley
 Happy Valley, ORCastle Rock, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$12,699$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,791  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,132$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio19.01  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9144573
 Students per Counselor355  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock0.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.7%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock97.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.50.0%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree5.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.5%1.5%
Reviews for Happy Valley    4 Reviews

Over 14 years ago

Happy Valley, OR is a great place to live. Just east of Portland its on a hill where you could see the beautiful city(Portland) in the valley. All the beautiful lights  More

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Over 14 years ago

Left NYC and moved straight to Portland 5 years ago. I'm in early 40s with kids and wife and they love it here  More

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Over 15 years ago

Damascus is a quiet community just East of Portland. We are close to Gresham, Clackamas, and Boring/Sandy. There is farm land out this way, nice friendly people and the  More

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Reviews for Castle Rock    12 Reviews

My fiance and I moved here in 2018 shortly after finishing college. I work in Colorado Springs and she works in the Denver area, so Castle Rock was practically our only  More

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Over 7 years ago

I have always been mobile for my career, until I moved to Castle Rock. I've lived in in multiple cities in the Midwest including Chicago and have visited nearly every  More

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Over 11 years ago

we have four seasons, and the rockies are only two hrs.away. so for the outdoors enthusist sking or hiking is like no other place you have been or seen it is hard to  More

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