2025 Compare Cities Education:
Madison, WI vs Santee, CA

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Highlights
- Santee spends 7.3% less per student than Madison.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 71.6% higher in Santee than in Madison. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Santee had 3.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Madison
 Madison, WISantee, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$16,358$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,473  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,084$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.2  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock187444573
 Students per Counselor415  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.15.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.58.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.5%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.9%1.5%
Reviews for Madison    78 Reviews

Unfortunately, a number of these reviews are politically based. Madison remains the only shining star in Wisconsin’s economy. The economy is broadly based, with  More

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Have been living in Madison for almost 3 years. It’s very safe, ppl generally friendly and for a town of its size it has fair number of good restaurants and interesting  More

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Lacks balance and zero accountability.   More

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Reviews for Santee    10 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

I have lived in Santee for 36 years and the changes have been extensive. Traffic has been, and still is, a big problem. However, that's a problem in most CA towns and  More

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Over 13 years ago

San Diego in general is a very expensive place to live. Santee is less so but compared to the rest of the country we are way over  More

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Over 17 years ago

Santee has a great quality of life,low crime, good schools(some of the best schools east county has to offer), fairly short commute time, as it is fairly well central in  More

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