2025 Compare Cities Education:
Santa Rosa, CA vs Evanston, IL

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Highlights
- Evanston spends 30.0% more per student than Santa Rosa.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 32.9% lower in Evanston than in Santa Rosa. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Evanston had 11.5% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Santa Rosa
 Santa Rosa, CAEvanston, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$21,907$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,921  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,567$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio20.82  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock14804573
 Students per Counselor399  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.23.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock4.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.34.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock23.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock7.7%1.5%
Reviews for Santa Rosa    43 Reviews

I was born and raised here. Santa Rosa used to be a great city great location great weather but now it is overcrowded and crime is off the charts and housing is crazy  More

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I've lived her over 20 years and it's a pretty nice place. The main vibe is you feel safe doing this day or night. Most of the neighborhoods are well taken care of, they  More

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Terrible city that's hurting for money. After going on a long hiatus from enforcing traffic laws, they've recently turned their highways into an ATM machine/cash cow by  More

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Reviews for Evanston    20 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

be sure to take pictures of where you park... Full-scale parking scam going on in this town. They purposely obscure self-pay parking signs. Nine out of 10 visitors  More

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I've lived here for two years for school. Terrible place for students. Northwestern is a great school/campus, but the city itself is NOT student friendly. Everything  More

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Aside from everything else mentioned on this site about the bad aspects of Evanston - bot be overlooked is the NOISE. The People's Republic of Evanston CATERS to the  More

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