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Long Beach, CA vs Elk Grove, CA

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Highlights
- Elk Grove spends 12.6% less per student than Long Beach.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 4.1% higher in Elk Grove than in Long Beach. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Elk Grove had 12.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Long Beach

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 Long Beach, CAElk Grove, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$17,429$15,240$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$14,374$12,484$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$8,492$7,670$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.8622.7516.23
 Students per Librarian656563214573
 Students per Counselor380641530
 Grade School Educ.11.8%4.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.6%4.2%6.3%
 High School Educ.80.6%90.9%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.8%25.9%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.7.2%10.0%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.32.8%37.1%33.7%
 Masters Grad.8.2%8.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.0%2.7%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.3%1.4%1.5%

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Reviews for Long Beach    45 Reviews

Local born and bred. This place is going down the drain. Crime is up, housing is up, yuppies finding nothing wrong with it since they want to validate spending 3k on a 2  More

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Angelique · 
Over 4 years ago

I love Long Beach. I especially shoreline village and the aquarium of the pacific. The only big problem here (for me) is crime. Otherwise, nice  More

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Over 6 years ago

The cost of living is extremely high and there are way too many apartments or multi unit homes which have no parking. But with everyone living on top of each other it  More

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Reviews for Elk Grove    15 Reviews

I grew up in the area around Elk Grove and it was a very small rural town up to the year 2000. We moved to ELk grove in 2009 and commuted to work in Sacramento. At  More

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Elk Grove is a very diverse city. A long time ago it use to be very white. Now the white population is about 40%, then next majority race are Asian, then Hispanic,  More

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Over 10 years ago

Our neighborhood is o.k. but it is expensive to live here and the air is oppressive during the summer when it gets hot for a week or more. Days over 95 and nights of 75.  More

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ZIPS IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
90805, 90813, 90806, 90815, 90802, 90804, 90810, 90808, 90807, 90803, 13 total
ZIPS IN ELK GROVE, CALIFORNIA
95624 95758 95757

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