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Rochester, MN vs Fort Dodge, IA

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Highlights
- Fort Dodge spends 0.3% less per student than Rochester.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 26.6% lower in Fort Dodge than in Rochester. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fort Dodge had 5.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Rochester

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 Rochester, MNFort Dodge, IAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$14,702$14,653$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,126$12,096$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,869$7,814$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio20.2114.8316.23
 Students per Librarian92614274573
 Students per Counselor435345530
 Grade School Educ.2.7%2.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.9%8.6%6.3%
 High School Educ.94.4%89.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.15.8%22.3%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.11.3%11.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.48.7%19.5%33.7%
 Masters Grad.13.1%3.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree5.2%1.4%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree3.6%0.7%1.5%

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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 4 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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Reviews for Fort Dodge    5 Reviews

Corrupt politicians always scheming to funnel public money to wealthy private interests, creating a welfare dependent economy that will be imploding sooner than later,  More

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Having lived here all of my life and having been involved with the community in many ways, I would not recommend that anyone move to FD at this time. About 60% of the  More

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Over 9 years ago

Before moving to the Fort Dodge area please consider other options. The city is a decaying town, streets have definitely seen better days and are filthy. There are not  More

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ZIPS IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
55901 55904 55902 55906 55905
ZIPS IN FORT DODGE, IOWA
50501

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