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Pacific Grove, CA vs Vallejo, CA

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Highlights
- Vallejo spends 9.2% less per student than Pacific Grove.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 5.8% higher in Vallejo than in Pacific Grove. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Vallejo had 8.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Pacific Grove
 Pacific Grove, CAVallejo, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,968$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,156  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,685$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.73  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock62534573
 Students per Counselor526  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock6.4%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.8%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.55.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock5.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.8%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 Vallejo    32 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

If you move to Vallejo, you will quickly realize that you're paying a lot of money to live in well-polished squalor. I moved to Vallejo in mid-2008 just as the city  More

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Over 7 years ago

I would love to live in a place where there are not fireworks all year round or gunshots every night. Police are understaffed and overworked and this is coming from a  More

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Over 7 years ago

I've lived in Vallejo for 5 years I moved here from Alameda California where I spent about 3 years and before that was in Seattle for 18 years. People said to  More

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