2025 Compare Cities Education:
Plainfield, IL vs Franklin, TN

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Highlights
- Franklin spends 26.4% less per student than Plainfield.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.5% higher in Franklin than in Plainfield. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Franklin had 0.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Plainfield
 Plainfield, ILFranklin, TNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,371$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,222  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,635$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.41  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock3994573
 Students per Counselor776  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.16.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock6.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.55.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock18.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.6%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.7%1.5%
Reviews for Plainfield    13 Reviews

Over 11 years ago

Plenty of housing in Plainfield, Joliet, IL area but norm on rent for a three bedroom house is around $2000.00  More

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Over 12 years ago

We transferred from the East Coast to Chicagoland and did not know where to live....We have kids and did NOT want the excess (read Drug Problems) in Naperville....Our  More

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Over 12 years ago

Plainfield is a good place to live, housing is descent, low crime.   More

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Reviews for Franklin    27 Reviews

After visiting here for a week in the summer, I fell in love with the city! Lots of my friends in Florida already moved here from New Port Richey and Wesley Chapel. I  More

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I've lived in Tennessee all my life. I have lived in west,east and middle Tennessee. By far this is the best place I have lived. We have been in Franklin for 8 years. It  More

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I love that this is a greatly diverse community with a large African American and Hispanic community around West Main St./Nachez (I'm addicted to Pueblo Real Mexican  More

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