2025 Compare Cities Education:
Laguna Beach, CA vs Pacific Grove, CA

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- Pacific Grove spends 0.6% more per student than Laguna Beach.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 6.4% lower in Pacific Grove than in Laguna Beach. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Pacific Grove had 1.6% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Laguna Beach
 Laguna Beach, CAPacific Grove, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,375$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,911  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,645$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio23.21  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock289524573
 Students per Counselor595  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock96.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.16.3%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.67.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock16.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock5.3%1.5%
Reviews for Laguna Beach    3 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

... always great to go home to. But i don't live there now, haven't for 10 years. Beautiful as it is, if you've got wanderlust you're always somewhere else. Avoid  More

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Over 16 years ago

Mediterranean climate, one of the best in the  More

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Laguna Beach is peaceful and beautiful. If you have the money for housing you will enjoy living here. However, during the seasonal Pageant of the Masters and Summer Art  More

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Reviews for Pacific Grove    3 Reviews

We had vacationed in the Monterey Bay Area for 40 years and really liked it, so we leased an apartment in Pacific Grove for a year to see if we would like to purchase  More

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Over 19 years ago

PG is a wonderful town, although with a four-year old child, the town feels old. It is prohibitively expensive to live in PG with the Average home close to a million  More

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We were welcomed to the community and had great  More

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