2025 Compare Cities Education:
Kennesaw, GA vs Charleston, SC

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Highlights
- Charleston spends 36.4% more per student than Kennesaw.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 10.8% lower in Charleston than in Kennesaw. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Charleston had 2.5% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Kennesaw
 Kennesaw, GACharleston, SCUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$18,933$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,675  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,530$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.47  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5054573
 Students per Counselor376  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.8%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.44.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.9%1.5%
Reviews for Kennesaw    9 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

Lived here for 15 years. Lived in Colorado and Missouri also and spent a lot of time in Southern California. I can tell you this place is terrible! Summers are long,  More

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Over 7 years ago

Warm autumn and always something to do no matter what  More

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Kennesaw - Here's a bit of our background to help in your assessment. We moved to GA from southern CA. I've lived in Kennesaw for 8yrs. We are a multicultural family  More

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Reviews for Charleston    76 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Charleston is beautiful and unique and incredibly special. If you don't believe me, just ask Anthony Bourdain in his Parts Unknown episode - and he was an insightful  More

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Serious lack of health care and "good old boys club" whereby doctors will not even see the patient but diagnose them based on referring doctor. My sister died there for  More

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Over 5 years ago

Boy, has this once beautiful town changed...for the worse! I initially moved here 20 years ago because the people were so nice, no traffic, great choice of hospitals,  More

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