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New Orleans, LA vs Alameda, CA

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Highlights
- Alameda spends 12.9% less per student than New Orleans.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 22.4% higher in Alameda than in New Orleans. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Alameda had 4.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to New Orleans
 New Orleans, LAAlameda, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,788$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,687  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,104$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.65  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock95554573
 Students per Counselor586  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock6.0%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.39.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock16.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.0%1.5%
Reviews for New Orleans    87 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

I have lived in NOLA for 6 years. Like all cities, you must take the good with the bad. It is more expensive than what you read about on the internet. The drivers are  More

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Over 3 years ago

I've lived here for going on 3 years. The person who lives with me wanted us to move here. It got old for me very soon after we moved here. Neither of us like it.   More

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Lived here 20 years, transplant from a dank Midwestern metropolis. For the first 15 years I was pretty much one of those rabid people foaming at the mouth whenever  More

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Reviews for Alameda    6 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

Having been born here & 70 now I have watched firsthand, a small, quiet town ruined by excessive building, overcrowding and far too many restaurants for a city this  More

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Enjoy the immense benefit to having a close-knit community with main-street USA feel less than 10 miles from the resources of several urban and education  More

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Alameda, CA is a unique town here in the Bay Area. Perhaps because it is an island, or perhaps because for many decades it was a U.S. Army base, the city has never  More

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