2025 Compare Cities Education:
Santa Cruz, CA vs Lancaster, CA

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Highlights
- Lancaster spends 6.5% more per student than Santa Cruz.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 0.1% higher in Lancaster than in Santa Cruz. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Lancaster had 14.6% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Santa Cruz
 Santa Cruz, CALancaster, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,429$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,552  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,492$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.84  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock65654573
 Students per Counselor473  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock8.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock81.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.19.7%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.56.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.9%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.3%1.5%
Reviews for Santa Cruz    44 Reviews

I lived in the Santa Cruz area for 20 years. UCSC alum. Our kids were born there. There are wonderful things about Santa Cruz, but also many serious problems that we  More

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Over 5 years ago

I have been here for four generations! My kids are the fifth. I guess that should tell you how wonderful it is here, at least for us. It's so cool to have world class  More

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I was born over the hill in San Jose area, and as a kid I loved coming over to the boardwalk. Santa Cruz has always been and always will be a town of diversity,  More

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Reviews for Lancaster    48 Reviews

Worse than even Compton in some ways... worse than hell overall. This place is so bad you will want to off yourself every day just by being here, but probably not too  More

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Over 5 years ago

I was born here, then grew up here for 17 years and joined the Army as a teen, but constantly went back to visit my parents and friends. I lived there again for 4 years  More

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Over 7 years ago

Moved to the Eastside of Lancaster. I have target, lowes, the whole wheatery, homedepot, bank of America, wells Fargo, Walmart, traders Joe's, Carl's jr, burger king,  More

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