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Mountain Brook, AL vs Sarasota, FL

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Highlights
- Sarasota spends 2.0% more per student than Mountain Brook.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 20.4% lower in Sarasota than in Mountain Brook. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Sarasota had 9.1% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Mountain Brook
 Mountain Brook, ALSarasota, FLUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,454$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,144  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,593$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio19.32  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8684573
 Students per Counselor417  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.0.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.8.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.86.0%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree17.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.4%1.5%
Reviews for Mountain Brook    1 Reviews

Over 19 years ago

Life's good in Mountain Brook! My father was in a hospital for surgery in Birmingham. I got lost and found myself wandering through gorgeous, wooded Montain Brook. Very  More

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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