2025 Compare Cities Education:
Hollister, CA vs Mesa, AZ

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Highlights
- Mesa spends 41.4% less per student than Hollister.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 21.6% lower in Mesa than in Hollister. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Mesa had 13.1% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Hollister
 Hollister, CAMesa, AZUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,564$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,320  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,810$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio23.27  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock23484573
 Students per Counselor881  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.14.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock7.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.9%1.5%
Reviews for Hollister    2 Reviews

Over 16 years ago

Hollister, California has a wonderful bicycle store named Off the Chain Bikes. Brian Lucas owns and operates this store. His knowledge and passion for cycling is so  More

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Over 19 years ago

great dirt bike  More

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Reviews for Mesa    61 Reviews

Mesa is a really good city despite some trouble with Superstition Springs and the failure that is Fiesta Mall, there is nice areas throughout and some areas that need to  More

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Over 2 years ago

As someone who was born in Mesa and has lived here in the 85210 in Dobson Ranch for the last 13 years after moving out from Chandler. I can tell you that most of the  More

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I’m a native to Arizona and growing up here has taught me that people just don’t care, and the Mormon community is huge! It’s normal in the state of AZ for kids to start  More

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