2024 Compare Cities Education:
Santa Barbara, CA vs Castle Rock, CO

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Highlights
- Castle Rock spends 24.0% less per student than Santa Barbara.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 16.1% lower in Castle Rock than in Santa Barbara. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Castle Rock had 10.5% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Santa Barbara
 Santa Barbara, CACastle Rock, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student$16,705$12,699$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,158$10,748$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,862$6,132$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.0117.6216.23
 Students per Librarian123879144573
 Students per Counselor539279530
 Grade School Educ.7.2%0.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.9%1.9%6.3%
 High School Educ.88.0%97.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.5%22.0%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.7.2%8.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.50.5%52.0%33.7%
 Masters Grad.12.6%12.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.6%1.7%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree3.5%1.5%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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Over 3 years ago

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 Castle Rock    12 Reviews

My fiance and I moved here in 2018 shortly after finishing college. I work in Colorado Springs and she works in the Denver area, so Castle Rock was practically our only  More

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Over 6 years ago

I have always been mobile for my career, until I moved to Castle Rock. I've lived in in multiple cities in the Midwest including Chicago and have visited nearly every  More

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Over 10 years ago

we have four seasons, and the rockies are only two hrs.away. so for the outdoors enthusist sking or hiking is like no other place you have been or seen it is hard to  More

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