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Lake Oswego, OR vs Boise City, ID

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- Boise City spends 50.5% less per student than Lake Oswego.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 6.3% lower in Boise City than in Lake Oswego. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 3.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Lake Oswego
 Lake Oswego, ORBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,791  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio19.01  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor355  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.0.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.13.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.72.8%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Lake Oswego    14 Reviews

I have lived occasionally in Lake Oswego with my sister who married a LO man and found it very sweet. He was raised there by hard-working parents who had fantastic work  More

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Over 6 years ago

Retired in Lake Oswego to be close to family and Live in a beautiful little city. We call it Paradise. We’ve had part-time property in Oregon for 20 years and we have  More

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Ive lived here 22 years and it has gone from a charming small town to a congested pass thru neighborhood. People are rude, traffic a nightmare and we hate it here but  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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