2025 Compare Cities Education:
Homer, LA vs Independence, LA

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Highlights
- Independence spends 29.0% less per student than Homer.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 2.4% lower in Independence than in Homer. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Independence had 1.8% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Homer
 Homer, LAIndependence, LAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,455$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,824  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,972$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.84  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock20304573
 Students per Counselor425  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.16.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock79.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock6.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.11.2%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock1.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.0%1.5%
Reviews for Homer    2 Reviews

I just received an email, which informed me that an elderly black man was shot on his own front porch, during a family gatherring by two caucasian policemen. No one at  More

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Homer has good and bad traits. The good traits are: it's mostly quiet, cheap, nice people, but some are very mean.the bad traits are: poor education, teenagers are  More

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Reviews for Independence    1 Reviews

Over 14 years ago

First of all, I wasn't able to 'select' my city of Loranger, Louisiana...this may be due to the fact that it is unincorporated territory (but then again, since certain  More

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