2025 Compare Cities Education:
Lake Forest, IL vs Sarasota, FL

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Highlights
- Sarasota spends 45.0% less per student than Lake Forest.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 13.4% higher in Sarasota than in Lake Forest. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Sarasota had 8.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Lake Forest
 Lake Forest, ILSarasota, FLUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,454$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$20,875  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,593$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.56  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8684573
 Students per Counselor592  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.0.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.10.3%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.81.0%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree12.9%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.4%1.5%
Reviews for Lake Forest    4 Reviews

We relocated cross county to Lake Forest about a year ago due to a job change. We looked at nearby communities, within proximity of the work commute (the office is in  More

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Be prepared for a so called upscale town with entitled, overpaid, snooty people from teenagers who sneer at you to adults who look you up and down, who make demands on a  More

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Over 15 years ago

Long cold winters, short cold springs, hot humid summers, nice  More

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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