2025 Compare Cities Education:
Los Altos, CA vs Sarasota, FL

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Highlights
- Sarasota spends 26.9% less per student than Los Altos.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 28.8% lower in Sarasota than in Los Altos. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Sarasota had 8.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Los Altos
 Los Altos, CASarasota, FLUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,454$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$14,141  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,593$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.59  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8684573
 Students per Counselor646  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.0.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.7.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.85.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree9.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.4%1.5%
Reviews for Los Altos    2 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

Expensive but worth  More

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Over 17 years ago

the quality of life here is very high however the cost of living is also high. extremely high as a matter of fact. I'd like to look at other communities that are less  More

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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