2025 Compare Cities Education:
Rochester, MN vs Waterville, ME

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Highlights
- Waterville spends 11.1% more per student than Rochester.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 41.4% lower in Waterville than in Rochester. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Waterville had 4.1% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Rochester
 Rochester, MNWaterville, MEUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$16,335$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,126  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,271$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio20.21  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock3194573
 Students per Counselor435  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.15.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.7%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.48.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree5.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock4.0%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 Waterville    8 Reviews

just spend 15 years living in LA and loving it, but now I'm retired and I am priced out. staying in Maine with family. do I move to Central Maine with its myriad  More

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Over 11 years ago

I have lived here for a decade but only started looking for office space in the last few months. There are lots of affordable places  More

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Over 11 years ago

Maine in general, and Waterville in particular, have been a wonderful place to homeschool our three children. We are able to work with as much or as little interaction  More

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