2025 Compare Cities Education:
Madison, WI vs Sweet Home, OR

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Highlights
- Sweet Home spends 1.9% more per student than Madison.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 31.7% higher in Sweet Home than in Madison. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Sweet Home had 16.1% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Madison
 Madison, WISweet Home, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,973$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,473  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,670$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.2  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock6834573
 Students per Counselor415  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock80.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.15.4%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.58.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock1.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.0%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 Sweet Home    4 Reviews

My son and his family are looking at a job transfer from Medford where fire smoke is getting nearly unbearable. I told him it’s bad in this area too, but what do the  More

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Over 7 years ago

This little town has potential but not enough financial support backing its law enforcement and park area's. Very depressed community and as an old logging town it  More

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Sweet Home is a beautiful town in the mountains with a river running through town. There are two reservoirs within a few minutes drive. Great fishing, boating and  More

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