2025 Compare Cities Education:
Portland, ME vs Hillsboro, OR

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Highlights
- Hillsboro spends 11.9% more per student than Portland.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 59.2% higher in Hillsboro than in Portland. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Hillsboro had 3.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Portland
 Portland, MEHillsboro, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$19,904$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,112  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,532$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio11.44  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8094573
 Students per Counselor265  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.7%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock91.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.16.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.56.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock4.6%1.5%
Reviews for Portland    35 Reviews

Used to be great before the pandemic. Now people from out of state have ruined it by paying New York prices for real estate site unseen. Why would you live in Maine when  More

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Over 4 years ago

I have never lived here but the lack of Jimmy John’s is depressing and makes me wish I was deceased.  More

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Reggie · 
Over 7 years ago

I found out I was allergic to corn on the cob here. I would give Portland twelve thumbs downs if I could. My friend told me there was a subway here and I thought he  More

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Reviews for Hillsboro    10 Reviews

Hillsboro is definitely an improvement over Portland Oregon which went from a beautiful city to a major dump full of homelessness, garbage and crime. We had lived in  More

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Over 2 years ago

I've lived in HIllsboro twice. It is a very diverse part of Portland with tons of immigrants and the best rural flare in the  More

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We lived here for seven years. What we loved about it was it was close to family; everything was close for doctors, shopping, libraries, parks,etc; and much was in  More

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