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Post Falls, ID vs Boise City, ID

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Highlights
- Boise City spends 5.4% more per student than Post Falls.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 5.9% lower in Boise City than in Post Falls. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 2.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Post Falls
 Post Falls, IDBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$8,177  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.94  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor402  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.32.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.21.1%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Post Falls    6 Reviews

In moving here I knew about the snow. Not a matter of if but how much. What I didn't know was how windy it gets and how often. I also didn't know about the dust. It's  More

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Over 7 years ago

Moved here from Seattle in 2018. Even though the population is under 40,000 it doesn't feel like small town Mayberry. The biggest mistake I see happening is the building  More

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Post Falls had great potential; too bad the city planning committee blew it! It's such a disorganized bunch of housing communities built just what looks like where ever  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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