2025 Compare Cities Education:
Long Beach, NY vs Charleston, SC

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Highlights
- Charleston spends 39.6% less per student than Long Beach.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 7.0% higher in Charleston than in Long Beach. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Charleston had 0.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Long Beach
 Long Beach, NYCharleston, SCUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$18,933$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$27,824  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,530$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.06  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5054573
 Students per Counselor358  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.8%88.9%
 Some College Educ.16.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.50.8%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.9%1.5%
Reviews for Long Beach    2 Reviews

Over 18 years ago

Long Beach is one of two cities located on Long Island, New York. It is on a barrier island on the south shore of Long Island.We enjoy this calm fun location while at  More

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I moved here from CA 6 years ago and love it here. It is a barrier island which is a part of Long Island off the Atlantic coast, so it is all beach coastline with a  More

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Reviews for Charleston    76 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Charleston is beautiful and unique and incredibly special. If you don't believe me, just ask Anthony Bourdain in his Parts Unknown episode - and he was an insightful  More

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Serious lack of health care and "good old boys club" whereby doctors will not even see the patient but diagnose them based on referring doctor. My sister died there for  More

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Over 5 years ago

Boy, has this once beautiful town changed...for the worse! I initially moved here 20 years ago because the people were so nice, no traffic, great choice of hospitals,  More

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