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Mendota Heights, MN vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 9.7% less per student than Mendota Heights.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 27.7% higher in Rochester than in Mendota Heights. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 4.8% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Mendota Heights

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 Mendota Heights, MNRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student$16,289$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,783$12,126$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$8,532$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.8320.2116.23
 Students per Librarian9309264573
 Students per Counselor573435530
 Grade School Educ.0.2%2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.0.6%2.9%6.3%
 High School Educ.99.2%94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.15.1%15.8%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.9.3%11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.64.7%48.7%33.7%
 Masters Grad.15.6%13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree8.2%5.2%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree4.0%3.6%1.5%

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Reviews for Mendota Heights    1 Reviews

Mendota Heights is a second ring suburb of Minnesota's capital of St. Paul, only 2 miles from the center of the city. Taxes are in the lowest 5 towns in the 9 county  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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ZIPS IN MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MINNESOTA
55120
ZIPS IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
55901 55904 55902 55906 55905

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