2025 Compare Cities Education:
Santa Clara, CA vs Sarasota, FL

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Highlights
- Sarasota spends 26.9% less per student than Santa Clara.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 28.8% lower in Sarasota than in Santa Clara. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Sarasota had 3.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Santa Clara
 Santa Clara, CASarasota, FLUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,454$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$14,141  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,593$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.59  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8684573
 Students per Counselor646  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.12.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.63.2%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.4%1.5%
Reviews for Santa Clara    14 Reviews

Larry · 

Santa Clara, CA and the city government are great. The city has been for the most part very good to me. I grew up in Santa Clara and now that I have been away for two  More

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I have lived in Santa Clara California most of my life so I consider myself to be an expert. The climate is wonderful. The price of housing is way above the national  More

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Over 10 years ago

Good Central Park and activities; City-owned power company provides lower cost power; home to many high-tech companies; city is  More

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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