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New Orleans, LA vs Sugar Land, TX

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Highlights
- Sugar Land spends 32.4% less per student than New Orleans.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 13.7% lower in Sugar Land than in New Orleans. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Sugar Land had 7.4% more residents who had graduated High School compared to New Orleans
 New Orleans, LASugar Land, TXUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,803$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,687  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,309$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.65  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8074573
 Students per Counselor586  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock6.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.39.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock18.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.4%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 Sugar Land    24 Reviews

Over 8 years ago

Trust me, Houston and its crime has caught up with Sugar Land in the past 10 years. I've been here for over 25 years, and when we came here there was hardly any mention  More

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I'd like to start by saying I hope that some of the situations in some of the other posts are isolated incidents. Also, I am qualifying this post with: I haven't been a  More

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Since we moved to Sugar land 15 years ago it has grown tremendously. The quality of life has improved, with more places to go and things to do in the area. Property  More

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