2025 Compare Cities Education:
Jamestown, NY vs Mesa, AZ

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Highlights
- Mesa spends 58.5% less per student than Jamestown.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 70.1% higher in Mesa than in Jamestown. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Mesa had 5.6% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Jamestown
 Jamestown, NYMesa, AZUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,564$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$20,759  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,810$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio10.72  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock23484573
 Students per Counselor290  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.10.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.18.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock7.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.9%1.5%
Reviews for Jamestown    2 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

I have lived all over this country and can say that Jamestown is a lovely old city. It has some problems common to small, rural cities in the northeast - lack of job  More

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Over 18 years ago

We have been out West several times and find that we like the wide open spaces. Here in New York the foothills are to close and not enough open  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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