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New Orleans, LA vs Birmingham, AL

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Highlights
- Birmingham spends 35.4% less per student than New Orleans.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.5% higher in Birmingham than in New Orleans. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Birmingham had 0.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to New Orleans

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 New Orleans, LABirmingham, ALUnited States
 Expend. per Student$20,431$13,194$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,687$11,144$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$6,683$6,493$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.6519.3216.23
 Students per Librarian22525474573
 Students per Counselor586417530
 Grade School Educ.3.5%3.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.3%9.1%6.3%
 High School Educ.88.2%87.9%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.6%22.6%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.5.0%8.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.39.1%28.8%33.7%
 Masters Grad.10.4%6.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.5%2.9%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.2%1.6%1.5%

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Reviews for New Orleans    87 Reviews

Over 1 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 2 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 Birmingham    25 Reviews

Birmingham is better than ever, meaning it is beginning to gain half of the stuff a normal city of its size has. The food scene is definitely an exception and is above  More

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Lived in the Birmingham for years. The small city was divided by the historical train tracks into the north half and the south one. The north section was the  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved to Birmingham 6.5 years ago for a new job. The city is very boring in my opinion, there isn't much to do over the weekend except shopping or eating out. Summer  More

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ZIPS IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
70119, 70122, 70118, 70131, 70115, 70126, 70117, 70127, 70114, 70124, 19 total
ZIPS IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
35215, 35211, 35205, 35235, 35206, 35208, 35212, 35204, 35207, 35222, 18 total

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