2025 Compare Cities Education:
Jamestown, NY vs Santa Barbara, CA

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Highlights
- Santa Barbara spends 34.4% less per student than Jamestown.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 96.0% higher in Santa Barbara than in Jamestown. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Santa Barbara had 2.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Jamestown
 Jamestown, NYSanta Barbara, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$16,705$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$20,759  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,862$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio10.72  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock123874573
 Students per Counselor290  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock7.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.10.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.18.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.5%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 Santa Barbara    51 Reviews

I moved to Santa Barbara around 23 years ago to study at Brooks, which like most of the Santa Barbara that I knew—has been destroyed. Homelessness, drugs, gangs, high  More

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Over 4 years ago

I fell in love with Santa Barbara about thirty years ago and finally moved here a few years ago. Because of the price of homes, it is an expensive place to live. The  More

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If you like high crime, paying a $4,500 a month mortgage and crazy high taxes, this is the place for you. It’s too bad because it wasn’t always like this. When I moved  More

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