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

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Highlights
- Visalia spends 4.6% less per student than Pacific Grove.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 1.4% higher in Visalia than in Pacific Grove. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Visalia had 10.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Pacific Grove
 Pacific Grove, CAVisalia, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,667$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,156  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,603$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.73  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock944534573
 Students per Counselor526  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock7.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock86.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.55.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.3%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 Visalia    27 Reviews

I've lived in the city of Visalia for 3 years now. Relocated to accommodate a territory sales job. If I were allowed, I'd go w. a 3 1/2 Star rating. If not for the  More

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Quite possibly the most miserable city/town I have lived in. Why?: * Air quality is toxic and dangerous from a combination of intensive agricultural farming and diesel  More

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So Visalia's NE, NW, SW, and Downtown are nice areas. The worst part of town is north of Houston between Dinuba BLVD and Ben Maddox. Here you will see lots of  More

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