2025 Compare Cities Education:
Montpelier, VT vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 34.3% less per student than Montpelier.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 85.2% higher in Rochester than in Montpelier. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 4.0% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Montpelier
 Montpelier, VTRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$19,864  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio10.91  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor167  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.12.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.64.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Montpelier    1 Reviews

As a life-long New Englander (raised in Massachusetts; lived in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont) you would think I must love cold weather, snow and clouds, but the  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 5 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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