2025 Compare Cities Education:
Myrtle Beach, SC vs Somerset, KY

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Highlights
- Somerset spends 9.8% less per student than Myrtle Beach.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 7.0% higher in Somerset than in Myrtle Beach. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Somerset had 13.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Myrtle Beach
 Myrtle Beach, SCSomerset, KYUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,277$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,111  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,241$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.61  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5074573
 Students per Counselor357  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock10.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock78.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.30.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.6%1.5%
Reviews for Myrtle Beach    56 Reviews

Coming from Massachusetts and New York state, I loved the weather, beach and change of lifestyle. Being an outgoing friendly person I met some nice people here along  More

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We were looking for a new city, and Myrtle Beach had had enough press that we were curious to check it out. A 30something and 40something couple, both of us have  More

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If I could give 4.5 instead of 5 I would because Id like to see the traffic flow better with more red lights and see more money put in to landscaping the roadways and  More

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Reviews for Somerset    7 Reviews

Over 11 years ago

There is certainly a small town atmosphere here. It seems as if there is a high percentage of the population that wants to get Somerset "on the map", but they want to do  More

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Over 15 years ago

I have lived here since 1989. My family moved me here from Chicago Ill when I was 5 years old. Growing up in this place, I can tell you first hand what you children will  More

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Over 17 years ago

I wanted to post facts on somerset on my previous post because sometimes on bestplaces.net it is just opinions and those can be misleading or one-sided. So I posted  More

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