2025 Compare Cities Education:
Pleasant Grove, UT vs Rochester, MN

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- Rochester spends 49.5% more per student than Pleasant Grove.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 17.3% lower in Rochester than in Pleasant Grove. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 1.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Pleasant Grove
 Pleasant Grove, UTRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$7,485  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio24.43  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor556  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.27.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.41.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.3%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Pleasant Grove    3 Reviews

Over 15 years ago

close to good biking  More

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Pleasant Grove has a small-town feel, but is very near to the large cities of Provo, Orem, and American Fork, with SLC just about 45 min away. It is a lovely, clean town  More

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Over 17 years ago

One of the reasons I moved to Pleasant Grove is minimal traffic. There are some tough spots, but mostly little traffic, no traffic jams and almost no  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 5 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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