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Pacific Grove, CA vs Folsom, CA

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Highlights
- Folsom spends 0.9% less per student than Pacific Grove.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 4.7% higher in Folsom than in Pacific Grove. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Folsom had 3.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Pacific Grove

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 Pacific Grove, CAFolsom, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$15,375$15,240$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,156$12,484$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,645$7,670$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.7322.7516.23
 Students per Librarian2895263214573
 Students per Counselor526641530
 Grade School Educ.1.0%2.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.0%5.0%6.3%
 High School Educ.96.0%92.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.2%18.1%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.9.4%9.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.55.4%51.7%33.7%
 Masters Grad.16.0%16.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.2%2.9%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree5.3%2.0%1.5%

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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 18 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 Folsom    15 Reviews

Over 9 years ago

Folsom has the worst air quality of any city in the Sacramento region per Sac Metro Air Quality Management. Do not move there if u have any respiratory issues, or u like  More

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Over 11 years ago

Folsom is a great little town of about 70,000 people. A half hour from Sacramento, an hour and a half from Tahoe, it sits in a good location at about 320 feet altitude.  More

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I think Folsom is ideal in many ways but it shares Sacramento's lousy air quality (1.5 out of 100 per this site). Sometimes it's worse than Sacramento when a smog  More

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ZIPS IN PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA
93950
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95630

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