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Madera, CA vs Folsom, CA

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Highlights
- Folsom spends 10.3% less per student than Madera.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 5.6% higher in Folsom than in Madera. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Folsom had 55.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Madera
 Madera, CAFolsom, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,240$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,354  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,670$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.55  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock63214573
 Students per Counselor439  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.13.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.11.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock16.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.3%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Madera    2 Reviews

I live here for the pass 4 years and in these years I lived in a fifth wheeler I owned a RV motor home but my dreams of selling it went out the window on the4 morning  More

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I live in Madera, Ca. and it has been listed in Sperling's BestPlaces as having a home medium price of $315,000 and a population of approx. 35,000. As an update to  More

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Reviews for Folsom    15 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

Folsom has the worst air quality of any city in the Sacramento region per Sac Metro Air Quality Management. Do not move there if u have any respiratory issues, or u like  More

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Over 12 years ago

Folsom is a great little town of about 70,000 people. A half hour from Sacramento, an hour and a half from Tahoe, it sits in a good location at about 320 feet altitude.  More

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I think Folsom is ideal in many ways but it shares Sacramento's lousy air quality (1.5 out of 100 per this site). Sometimes it's worse than Sacramento when a smog  More

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