2025 Compare Cities Education:
Hastings, NE vs Olympia, WA

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Highlights
- Olympia spends 16.4% more per student than Hastings.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 34.9% higher in Olympia than in Hastings. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Olympia had 5.1% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Hastings
 Hastings, NEOlympia, WAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,104$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,692  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,162$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.34  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock12464573
 Students per Counselor330  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.26.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.25.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock14.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.8%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 Olympia    39 Reviews

We moved here from Kitsap Bremerton/Silverdale WA area and this beats it all the way in all material ways. The only reason not to give it 5 stars is the cost of  More

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Over 4 years ago

The city is horrible. The business have been chased out by homeless. The city government makes it for difficult for businesses to thrive. If you like what Seattle is  More

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Having lived all over the world we decided to retire in Olympia and live on the Puget Sound. Yes it rains but the weather can change dramatically in a day with sun and  More

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