2025 Compare Cities Education:
Hopewell, VA vs Poughkeepsie, NY

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- Poughkeepsie spends 124.3% more per student than Hopewell.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 12.0% lower in Poughkeepsie than in Hopewell. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Poughkeepsie had 2.8% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Hopewell
 Hopewell, VAPoughkeepsie, NYUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$28,380$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,212  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$16,100$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.15  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9054573
 Students per Counselor408  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.10.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.23.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.11.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.7%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.1%1.5%
Reviews for Hopewell    2 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

I find it interesting. That a racist comments were posted by Tarrah. Yet when I tried to respond to her comment the site would not allow me to. Yes Hopewell, like other  More

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Over 18 years ago

I have lived here for about 8 months, and as far as I am concerned, the only good thing about this place is the schools. I work 25 minutes away in Richmond, because I  More

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Reviews for Poughkeepsie    10 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

I have mixed feelings about Poughkeepsie because there are equally as many things I love about that town as there are things I hate about it so I'm just going to write a  More

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Over 12 years ago

Prices are high here. housing is easily 25-30percent of our monthly  More

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Over 13 years ago

It'd be great if jobs were available. This city is OK but COL is so much higher in NY than where I was raised in South Maybe I should head  More

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