2025 Compare Cities Education:
Sarasota, FL vs Green Valley, AZ

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Highlights
- Green Valley spends 20.1% less per student than Sarasota.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 8.3% higher in Green Valley than in Sarasota. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Green Valley had 5.4% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Sarasota
 Sarasota, FLGreen Valley, AZUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,756$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,778  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,785$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.38  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock14474573
 Students per Counselor406  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.7%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.38.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.2%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 Green Valley    10 Reviews

The quiet little community of Sahuarita is the setting for a new book to hit the markets in the fall of 2021 titled, Stored "A Serial Killers First-Class Ticket to  More

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We decided on Green Valley for retirement after deciding against Las Vegas, northern AZ, and other 55 and over communities like Saddlebrooke and Quail Creek primarily  More

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My wife and I have lived here since 2016. Since GV is populated with oldsters we had thought it would be a welcoming community. Thinking neighbors would bring over  More

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