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Santa Rosa, CA vs Longview, WA

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Highlights
- Longview spends 19.0% more per student than Santa Rosa.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 10.9% lower in Longview than in Santa Rosa. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Longview had 4.5% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Santa Rosa
 Santa Rosa, CALongview, WAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$20,054$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,921  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,833$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio20.82  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock20644573
 Students per Counselor399  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock89.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.23.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock12.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.34.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock4.5%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.9%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 Longview    11 Reviews

Had to laugh at the reviews written by the liberal wackos from Portland. Longview is NOT Portland. If you want LGBTQ, defunded police, a weirdness factor of 15 on a  More

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I lived here since 2014. It started off bad, got worse with trumps crazy a**. If you manage all this, you might understand the "gold mine" Customer service is the  More

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Over 4 years ago

a town started as a white utopia, not much has changed! Racist, homophobic town! Mayor uses her religion in her job to discriminate against gays! Library budget cut  More

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