2025 Compare Cities Education:
Longview, WA vs Raytown, MO

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Highlights
- Raytown spends 29.0% less per student than Longview.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 23.5% lower in Raytown than in Longview. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Raytown had 3.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Longview
 Longview, WARaytown, MOUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,246$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,368  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,352$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.55  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8814573
 Students per Counselor334  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.29.7%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.16.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock5.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.5%1.5%
Reviews for Longview    11 Reviews

Had to laugh at the reviews written by the liberal wackos from Portland. Longview is NOT Portland. If you want LGBTQ, defunded police, a weirdness factor of 15 on a  More

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I lived here since 2014. It started off bad, got worse with trumps crazy a**. If you manage all this, you might understand the "gold mine" Customer service is the  More

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Over 4 years ago

a town started as a white utopia, not much has changed! Racist, homophobic town! Mayor uses her religion in her job to discriminate against gays! Library budget cut  More

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Reviews for Raytown    2 Reviews

Over 11 years ago

We have lived in this area for the past 20 years. While it is a quiet little suburb of Kansas City, I feel like the area is not growing the way it should. The city  More

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Over 17 years ago

I live on the edge of Raytown, our granddaughter attends a Raytown School. We love the town, we love the schools. We have run our business from here for many  More

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