2025 Compare Cities Education:
Ladson, SC vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 31.5% more per student than Ladson.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 24.8% higher in Rochester than in Ladson. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 11.1% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Ladson
 Ladson, SCRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,141  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio16.2  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor371  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.10.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.18.2%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Ladson    1 Reviews

Over 18 years ago

Ladson is located in Charleston County and Dorchester County. If you have kids you must live in the Dorchester 2 school district. We moved from Charleston County to  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 5 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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