2025 Compare Cities Education:
La Grande, OR vs Hillsboro, OR

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Highlights
- Hillsboro spends 35.9% more per student than La Grande.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 18.9% higher in Hillsboro than in La Grande. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Hillsboro had 2.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to La Grande
 La Grande, ORHillsboro, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$19,904$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,491  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,532$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.31  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8094573
 Students per Counselor471  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock91.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.28.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.22.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock4.6%1.5%
Reviews for La Grande    6 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

When I moved to LaGrande in 2018, my son decided to go to college there. If you are curious about the EOU education, it's what a kid makes of it. He completed a degree  More

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Over 3 years ago

Don’t be fooled by thinking that scenery equals a good place to live. The town is too isolated to be this small with an over abundance of small minded, ignorant people  More

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Growing up in a different small town and making the journey to La Grande for college (home of Eastern Oregon University), I found the migration to La Grande's community  More

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Reviews for Hillsboro    10 Reviews

Hillsboro is definitely an improvement over Portland Oregon which went from a beautiful city to a major dump full of homelessness, garbage and crime. We had lived in  More

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Over 2 years ago

I've lived in HIllsboro twice. It is a very diverse part of Portland with tons of immigrants and the best rural flare in the  More

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We lived here for seven years. What we loved about it was it was close to family; everything was close for doctors, shopping, libraries, parks,etc; and much was in  More

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