2024 Compare Cities Education:
Sarasota, FL vs Meridian, ID

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Highlights
- Meridian spends 31.0% less per student than Sarasota.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 15.9% higher in Meridian than in Sarasota. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Meridian had 5.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Sarasota
 Sarasota, FLMeridian, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student$13,454$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,778$8,035$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,593$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.3817.8216.23
 Students per Librarian86810314573
 Students per Counselor406430530
 Grade School Educ.3.6%1.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.9%3.5%6.3%
 High School Educ.90.5%95.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.2%25.0%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.8.1%10.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.38.3%40.9%33.7%
 Masters Grad.10.3%10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.0%2.2%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.4%1.4%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 Meridian    18 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

New to the area and so far we think it's a great place to live compared to Denver, where we moved from. Quality of life is so much better here! A lot less traffic than  More

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I have been here since 2013 and have watched child after child be diagnosed with Cancer. Many of the children have been diagnosed with "rare" Cancers. It has been  More

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Over 6 years ago

It has changed a lot over the years... Crime rates are still low and people are overall still nice HOWEVER way too many people are moving to my wonderful town! All the  More

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