2025 Compare Cities Education:
Miami, FL vs New Orleans, LA

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Highlights
- New Orleans spends 72.6% more per student than Miami.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 6.8% lower in New Orleans than in Miami. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- New Orleans had 11.4% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Miami
 Miami, FLNew Orleans, LAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$20,431$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,524  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,683$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.93  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock22524573
 Students per Counselor439  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.12.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.0%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.33.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.9%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.2%1.5%
Reviews for Miami    189 Reviews

Over 1 years ago

Great vacation spot with the best clubs and food. Wynwood and the Miami Design District are the best, just be careful at night. Area tends to jack prices up around  More

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Miami is rapidly devolving into a filthy, crime ridden, unattractive extension of Central America and South America. The population is a bunch of rude entitled dependent  More

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Beautiful place, well into the late 20th Century ... clean, safe, fun, peaceful. Started seeing elements of crap, just a tiny bit, back around 1980. Now what changed  More

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Reviews for New Orleans    87 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

I have lived in NOLA for 6 years. Like all cities, you must take the good with the bad. It is more expensive than what you read about on the internet. The drivers are  More

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Over 3 years ago

I've lived here for going on 3 years. The person who lives with me wanted us to move here. It got old for me very soon after we moved here. Neither of us like it.   More

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Lived here 20 years, transplant from a dank Midwestern metropolis. For the first 15 years I was pretty much one of those rabid people foaming at the mouth whenever  More

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