2025 Compare Cities Education:
Sarasota, FL vs Columbus, GA

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Highlights
- Columbus spends 12.5% less per student than Sarasota.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 2.7% lower in Columbus than in Sarasota. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Columbus had 2.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Sarasota
 Sarasota, FLColumbus, GAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,775$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,778  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,958$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.38  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock6024573
 Students per Counselor406  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.38.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock8.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.1%1.5%
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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Reviews for Columbus    9 Reviews

I have lived here for 6.5 years. In-town is cute with nice restaurants and sometimes music. It hasn’t realized it’s full potential though. Houses are still reasonably  More

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no,nonono NEVER MOVE HERE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. as someone who is almost out of highschool and i can finally go to my homecountry after 10 years of begging to move, never  More

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This once beautiful and safe town is now crime ridden and trashy courtesy of Theresa Tomlinson’s 2 terms as mayor. Even if you live in the north end you are no longer  More

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