2025 Compare Cities Education:
Michigan City, IN vs Carbondale, IL

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Highlights
- Carbondale spends 39.5% more per student than Michigan City.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 18.0% lower in Carbondale than in Michigan City. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Carbondale had 7.1% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Michigan City
 Michigan City, INCarbondale, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$19,079$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,939  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,644$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.98  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock12404573
 Students per Counselor736  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.7%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.16.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock17.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock5.5%1.5%
Reviews for Michigan City    5 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

I’ve lived in Michigan City for over 10 years now(March 2020) and am a native of Northwest Indiana (40 years.) Michigan City is an older town, on Lake Michigan ESE of  More

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Over 8 years ago

My in-laws live there. I love to visit the place. Nice people. The city has everything, malls, restaurants, cafes. It's very close to the nature. It's cold in the  More

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Over 15 years ago

HUMID and HOT in the June,July, August and bone chilling cold in Dec and Jan. Snow is just crazy...the lake effect snow machine comes right down off lake michigan and  More

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Reviews for Carbondale    7 Reviews

I've lived in C'dale for over 30 years. I got an excellent education here - Giant City School was great, though fairly insular and not very diverse (among its drawbacks  More

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Over 17 years ago

I like Carbondale. It is relaxing and an easy way to go about getting a college degree. It has its ups and downs, mainly with the people in the town not recognizing the  More

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All of the comments are negative here and seem to me to be misleading. The idea that you have to have a lot of money in Carbondale is ridiculous. The price of cultural  More

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