2025 Compare Cities Education:
Longview, WA vs Richmond, VA

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Highlights
- Richmond spends 22.9% less per student than Longview.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 22.3% lower in Richmond than in Longview. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Richmond had 1.8% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Longview
 Longview, WARichmond, VAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,456$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,368  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,210$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.55  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock2414573
 Students per Counselor334  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.29.7%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.0%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.16.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.2%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 Richmond    109 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Lived here for a year and it’s not perfect but it’s constantly improving now (areas redevloped, more businesses, job growth). Cost of living is great compared to  More

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Over 4 years ago

We love Richmond so much that when we talk about where we'd like to live if we could live anywhere in the US, we always come back to RVA. We live in the city proper  More

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Over 4 years ago

I'm an out-of-towner but am coming up on 1 year in Richmond. I would summarize it this way: the best thing and the worst thing about Richmond is its location. I'll  More

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