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Sarasota, FL vs Rock Island, IL

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Highlights
- Rock Island spends 18.9% more per student than Sarasota.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 1.4% lower in Rock Island than in Sarasota. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rock Island had 4.0% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Sarasota
 Sarasota, FLRock Island, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,998$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,778  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,732$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.38  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock12824573
 Students per Counselor406  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock86.9%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.38.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock5.8%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 Rock Island    3 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

Pros: 1. Extremely low cost of living 2. Affordable place to live Cons: 1. High crime rate 2. Poor school system 3. Not much to  More

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Rock Island has a varied background and contains many cultural and historic areas. It has been improving its school system and is in a metropolitan area which contains  More

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Over 19 years ago

I just moved here for work one year ago. Moving from San Francisco here was a shock but ultimatelly good. The community is a typical midwestern small town. It is part  More

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