2025 Compare Cities Education:
Pacific Grove, CA vs Brookings, OR

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Highlights
- Brookings spends 4.5% less per student than Pacific Grove.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 22.9% lower in Brookings than in Pacific Grove. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Brookings had 2.8% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Pacific Grove
 Pacific Grove, CABrookings, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,683$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,156  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,071$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.73  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock3224573
 Students per Counselor526  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock5.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock93.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.0%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.55.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock8.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.6%1.5%
Reviews for Pacific Grove    3 Reviews

We had vacationed in the Monterey Bay Area for 40 years and really liked it, so we leased an apartment in Pacific Grove for a year to see if we would like to purchase  More

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Over 19 years ago

PG is a wonderful town, although with a four-year old child, the town feels old. It is prohibitively expensive to live in PG with the Average home close to a million  More

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We were welcomed to the community and had great  More

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Reviews for Brookings    29 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Brookings Oregon is one of the most beautiful places in the world and has perfect weather. I searched for a retirement home, on the beach, for nearly ten years before  More

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Over 4 years ago

Brookings is an interesting place, very nice scenery, and excellent weather. The "locals" who inhabit this place are some of the most ignorant biased people you will  More

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Retired and moved here with my husband in 2020. Best decision we ever made. Amazing weather...even the rainy days are punctuated by crisp, sunny days in the winter. Not  More

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