2025 Compare Cities Education:
Pacific Grove, CA vs Chico, CA

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Highlights
- Chico spends 0.3% more per student than Pacific Grove.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 6.4% lower in Chico than in Pacific Grove. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Chico had 2.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Pacific Grove
 Pacific Grove, CAChico, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,415$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,156  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,909$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.73  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock58434573
 Students per Counselor526  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock93.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.55.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock8.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%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 Chico    31 Reviews

Chico is imperfect like most places, but it's still good. Any and all of it's issues proceed from it's main fault of growing increasingly liberal, which is to be  More

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Over 3 years ago

Chico's decent. I've been living here for ~5 years now. Eveen though my brother loves Chico and would like to stay, I would like to leave. I have no issues with crime or  More

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I was born in Oroville and I grew up in Oroville and Biggs. I have heard all my life about crime in chico. Well I have lived in Chico near Chapman for almost 10 years  More

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