2025 Compare Cities Education:
Rochester, MN vs Missoula, MT

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Highlights
- Missoula spends 12.5% less per student than Rochester.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 29.9% lower in Missoula than in Rochester. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Missoula had 2.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Rochester
 Rochester, MNMissoula, MTUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$12,865$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,126  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,770$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio20.21  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock4694573
 Students per Counselor435  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock97.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.15.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.48.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree5.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.7%1.5%
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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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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