2025 Compare Cities Education:
Lake City, CO vs Rifle, CO

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Highlights
- Rifle spends 89.4% less per student than Lake City.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 123.5% higher in Rifle than in Lake City. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rifle had 7.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Lake City
 Lake City, CORifle, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,757$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$25,437  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,791$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio6.97  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock6014573
 Students per Counselor77  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock5.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.27.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock12.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.46.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock3.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.2%1.5%
Reviews for Lake City    1 Reviews

Though Lake City is currently weathering the economic miasma far better than the nathional averages in median home price, unemployment, and twice the national average  More

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Reviews for Rifle    6 Reviews

I love the Western Slope!! While there are a lot of good things to be said about the Western Slope of Colorado, which Rifle is, there are some concerning things as  More

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Been living in the area for 3 years, Rifle for half of that. The city recently upgraded the water facilities, and the north half of I-70 no longer has the nasty hard  More

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Over 8 years ago

This area has a heroin/meth problem. It doesn't really impact you if you avoid it, but you tend to see a lot of tweakers/beggars/homeless around town. Water is not that  More

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