2025 Compare Cities Education:
Niagara Falls, NY vs New Orleans, LA

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Highlights
- New Orleans spends 16.1% less per student than Niagara Falls.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 23.3% higher in New Orleans than in Niagara Falls. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- New Orleans had 0.0% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Niagara Falls
 Niagara Falls, NYNew Orleans, LAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$20,431$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$19,601  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,683$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.32  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock22524573
 Students per Counselor253  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.19.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.0%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.21.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.2%1.5%
Reviews for Niagara Falls    6 Reviews

Niagara Falls is a place where we are careful about saying ‘things are looking up’ because we’ve said that before and whatever big project promised falls through or just  More

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Over 15 years ago

Niagara Falls has very high crime and a steady increase in gang activity. Unemployment is very high, there is a lot of pollution and winters are too long. The falls  More

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Niagara Falls is plagued by contamination for radioactive waste and dumping, high crime high taxes and corrupt politicians. One would figure that a smaller town  More

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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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