2025 Compare Cities Education:
Portales, NM vs Missoula, MT

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Highlights
- Missoula spends 3.9% less per student than Portales.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 4.9% higher in Missoula than in Portales. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Missoula had 14.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Portales
 Portales, NMMissoula, MTUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$12,865$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,347  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,770$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.51  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock4694573
 Students per Counselor322  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock97.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.23.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.25.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.3%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.7%1.5%
Reviews for Portales    10 Reviews

In a single sentence, this is a town that is slowly dying in the desert- and nobody here cares. Why- because the people who run this town were born in the 1940's or  More

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Over 6 years ago

I love portales new.Mexico they have nice people I like boys cute boys that the high school  More

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If you like boring, low wages, and high unemployment for mediocre jobs, and ultra-conservatism then this is the place for you.  More

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Reviews for Missoula    48 Reviews

I've lived here for 10 years and my view of the city has turned as we (barely) managed to buy a home, started a family, and the blight of homelessness has escalated out  More

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Over 5 years ago

I lived here for 6 years, and it never got any easier to live, I'm a Native American, these people her look down on us, I have been put in jail for sitting in a parking  More

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I have lived in Missoula on and off for the last 30 years, but consistently for the last 12. I met my wife and had my kids here. My father and my wife's entire family  More

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