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Hastings, NE vs Boise City, ID

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Highlights
- Boise City spends 36.8% less per student than Hastings.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 33.6% higher in Boise City than in Hastings. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 5.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Hastings
 Hastings, NEBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,692  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.34  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor330  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.26.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.25.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Hastings    3 Reviews

Over 8 years ago

The City's population is not as big as it says I don't think I don't think it has grown very much at all since the seventies in fact I think it has gotten smaller  More

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Hastings is home to Hastings College, one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges; the Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Lied Super Screen  More

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Over 19 years ago

Hastings is where Kool-Aid was invented. This small city of 25,000 has several beautiful parks with lakes and streams. Hastings Lake is wonderful to take walk on wide  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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