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Santa Barbara, CA vs Fontana, CA

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Highlights
- Fontana spends 12.2% less per student than Santa Barbara.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 8.2% higher in Fontana than in Santa Barbara. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fontana had 11.1% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Santa Barbara

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 Santa Barbara, CAFontana, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$16,705$14,673$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,158$13,060$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,862$7,933$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.0122.7416.23
 Students per Librarian12387131664573
 Students per Counselor539531530
 Grade School Educ.7.2%11.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.9%10.8%6.3%
 High School Educ.88.0%78.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.5%22.7%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.7.2%6.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.50.5%19.5%33.7%
 Masters Grad.12.6%4.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.6%0.6%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree3.5%0.2%1.5%

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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 Fontana    10 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

I bought a house in North Fontana 13 years ago and I was the worst thing I ever did Fontana is trash dirty Rundown graffiti everywhere broken down cars and OMG I'm sick  More

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I was born and raised here and I used to love it, but now I am moving out of it. The truth is that the climate is becoming way too hot. Sure, Fontana has always been  More

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Over 14 years ago

best cop ever, james chick payne!most well built sr. citizen, John Yarros. all gone but not  More

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ZIPS IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
93101 93105 93103 93110 93109
ZIPS IN FONTANA, CALIFORNIA
92335 92336 92337

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