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Miami, FL vs Santa Barbara, CA

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Highlights
- Santa Barbara spends 41.1% more per student than Miami.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 11.0% higher in Santa Barbara than in Miami. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Santa Barbara had 11.1% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Miami

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 Miami, FLSanta Barbara, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$11,839$16,705$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,524$13,158$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$6,809$7,862$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.9321.0116.23
 Students per Librarian2724123874573
 Students per Counselor439539530
 Grade School Educ.11.5%7.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.3%4.9%6.3%
 High School Educ.79.2%88.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.12.6%18.5%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.7.8%7.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.33.1%50.5%33.7%
 Masters Grad.8.2%12.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.9%4.6%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.1%3.5%1.5%

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Reviews for Miami    189 Reviews

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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 Santa Barbara    51 Reviews

I moved to Santa Barbara around 23 years ago to study at Brooks, which like most of the Santa Barbara that I knew—has been destroyed. Homelessness, drugs, gangs, high  More

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Over 3 years ago

I fell in love with Santa Barbara about thirty years ago and finally moved here a few years ago. Because of the price of homes, it is an expensive place to live. The  More

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If you like high crime, paying a $4,500 a month mortgage and crazy high taxes, this is the place for you. It’s too bad because it wasn’t always like this. When I moved  More

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ZIPS IN MIAMI, FLORIDA
33125, 33142, 33126, 33135, 33133, 33145, 33127, 33138, 33144, 33150, 18 total
ZIPS IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
93101 93105 93103 93110 93109

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