2025 Compare Cities Education:
Park Forest, IL vs Cleveland, OH

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Highlights
- Cleveland spends 7.9% less per student than Park Forest.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 26.7% higher in Cleveland than in Park Forest. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Cleveland had 10.6% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Park Forest
 Park Forest, ILCleveland, OHUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$20,172$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$18,508  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,106$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.97  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8434573
 Students per Counselor481  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock5.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.7%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock82.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.29.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.27.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock5.2%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.8%1.5%
Reviews for Park Forest    4 Reviews

I'm happy to share that it IS coming back. I'm very thankful we found this community. Our family (husband, wife, 1 young child) recently bought our a little house here  More

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Park Forest is beautiful, but it's going down. You can see tons of green, an excellent library, but also plenty of vacant buildings. In its hay day, it must have been  More

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Over 12 years ago

No disrespect to the remaining officials and friends from my upbringing; but, leave town. I read how Park forest continues to fight off urban decay. It's simply a  More

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Reviews for Cleveland    95 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

I live in a suburb right outside of Cleveland. I fear Cleveland gets a bad wrap in many people eyes. Although many families moved to the area for steel and auto  More

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I relocated to Cleveland 8 months ago from south of Columbus, OH. Having spent a lot of time in Columbus and central Ohio, I wanted to change. So I spontaneously decided  More

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Lived in Cleveland for 10 years. Loved it. Of course it has its issues, but there are a lot of great things about this city, and the people that live there should  More

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