2025 Compare Cities Education:
Happy Valley, OR vs Fresno, CA

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Highlights
- Fresno spends 17.6% less per student than Happy Valley.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 12.5% higher in Fresno than in Happy Valley. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fresno had 17.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Happy Valley
 Happy Valley, ORFresno, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,432$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,791  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,719$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio19.01  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock126164573
 Students per Counselor355  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock10.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.7%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock79.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.50.0%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock4.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree5.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.9%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 Fresno    77 Reviews

I'm not gonna say this city is terrible, but it certainly has many issues that need to be taken care of and unfortunately the city council has done a poor job keeping up  More

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I've lived in Fresno my entire life and when I became an adult, I began to realize how much being a resident here really sucks, it might be cheaper than most other  More

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Lived here since 2002. I may be flamed for this, but.. total dump and I would rate 0 stars if I could. You only really move here to move out. As good as a gas stop.  More

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