2025 Compare Cities Education:
Menlo Park, CA vs New Canaan, CT

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Highlights
- New Canaan spends 14.4% more per student than Menlo Park.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 35.5% lower in New Canaan than in Menlo Park. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- New Canaan had 3.1% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Menlo Park
 Menlo Park, CANew Canaan, CTUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$22,984$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$15,457  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$12,792$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio19.79  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5064573
 Students per Counselor431  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock0.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock98.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.9.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock3.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.72.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock27.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree8.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.3%1.5%
Reviews for Menlo Park    5 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

Cost of living is beyond absurdly  More

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Very nice. Good connection to San Francisco or San Jose or any city in between via Caltrain or bus. Weather can't be  More

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My 14mo daughter, wife and I live in Menlo Park, CA which is approximately half way between San Francisco and San Jose. To afford an upper middle class quality of life  More

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Reviews for New Canaan    3 Reviews

Over 15 years ago

Beautiful town with wonderful people. Great place to raise children, however, it is extremely costly to live  More

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Over 16 years ago

Agreed, cost of living is too high, too many wall streeters (which have a bad rep nowadays), and diversity is almost non-existant, public schools are average/good but  More

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Outside of the other categories, which run very well here; schools are good and competitive, climate is relatively mild, crime is very low, diversity is strong, culture  More

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