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Olive Branch, MS vs Thornton, CO

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Highlights
- Thornton spends 69.0% more per student than Olive Branch.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 20.7% higher in Thornton than in Olive Branch. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Thornton had 5.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Olive Branch
 Olive Branch, MSThornton, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,840$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$8,082  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,182$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.47  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10044573
 Students per Counselor468  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.27.7%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.27.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.0%1.5%
Reviews for Olive Branch    4 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

Olive Branch used to be the perfect small town with large city access, but the city of Memphis became so bad we've been affected tremendously over the past few years.   More

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We moved to Olive Branch, MS in 2002 and have been very pleased with our choice. Housing is less expensive than in the other Memphis Metro areas and with the tax breaks  More

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Over 18 years ago

city struggling to keep up with  More

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Reviews for Thornton    5 Reviews

Good place. Very suburbany (similar to the Springs). The houses are very small and old and yet still very expensive (albeit cheaper than southern Denver). Actually lots  More

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Over 5 years ago

I like Denver metro, but some cities aren’t too great. Thornton being one of them. Moved here because of highway access, and convenience to DIA for business travel. Am  More

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Over 10 years ago

The quality of life here in not good. The traffic is bad all the time. To try to get to the mountains takes forever! Also most lakes along the front range you can't even  More

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