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Santa Rosa, CA vs Long Beach, CA

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Highlights
- Long Beach spends 3.4% more per student than Santa Rosa.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 5.0% higher in Long Beach than in Santa Rosa. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Long Beach had 5.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Santa Rosa
 Santa Rosa, CALong Beach, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,429$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,921  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,492$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio20.82  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock65654573
 Students per Counselor399  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock11.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock80.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.23.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.34.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock8.2%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.3%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 Long Beach    45 Reviews

Local born and bred. This place is going down the drain. Crime is up, housing is up, yuppies finding nothing wrong with it since they want to validate spending 3k on a 2  More

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Angelique · 
Over 5 years ago

I love Long Beach. I especially shoreline village and the aquarium of the pacific. The only big problem here (for me) is crime. Otherwise, nice  More

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Over 7 years ago

The cost of living is extremely high and there are way too many apartments or multi unit homes which have no parking. But with everyone living on top of each other it  More

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