2025 Compare Cities Education:
Overland Park, KS vs Towson, MD

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Highlights
- Towson spends 21.7% more per student than Overland Park.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 7.8% higher in Towson than in Overland Park. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Towson had 0.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Overland Park
 Overland Park, KSTowson, MDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$16,935$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,650  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,409$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.41  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock6334573
 Students per Counselor409  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.7%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock96.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.17.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock4.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.61.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock21.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock4.9%1.5%
Reviews for Overland Park    38 Reviews

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Wasted 20 yrs living here, a lot of people want out but get trapped once they have families, I consider myself lucky and happy to have left this dump. This place is  More

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Overland Park is family Utopia. If you want a good place to raise your family with above average to great public schooling then OP is the place for you. Housing is a  More

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We visited Overland Park and a very nice place. I was also told that Overland Park is also one of the most expensive cities to live in the US. In looking at the water  More

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Reviews for Towson    3 Reviews

Because Towson university is right here, and we're not too far from downtown Baltimore, there are many bus lines running in the area. The problem though is they rarely  More

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Crowded, crime on the rise , very expensive and tax  More

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My wife and I have lived in Towson for seven and a half years. It has many of the things we want in a community but it is not our dream place to live. We would like a  More

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