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Santa Barbara, CA vs Boise City, ID

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Highlights
- Boise City spends 44.5% less per student than Santa Barbara.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 15.2% lower in Boise City than in Santa Barbara. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 8.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Santa Barbara
 Santa Barbara, CABoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,158  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.01  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor539  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.50.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.6%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Santa Barbara    51 Reviews

I moved to Santa Barbara around 23 years ago to study at Brooks, which like most of the Santa Barbara that I knew—has been destroyed. Homelessness, drugs, gangs, high  More

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I fell in love with Santa Barbara about thirty years ago and finally moved here a few years ago. Because of the price of homes, it is an expensive place to live. The  More

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If you like high crime, paying a $4,500 a month mortgage and crazy high taxes, this is the place for you. It’s too bad because it wasn’t always like this. When I moved  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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