2024 Compare Cities Education:
Secaucus, NJ vs Thornton, CO

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Highlights
- Thornton spends 38.6% less per student than Secaucus.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 40.7% higher in Thornton than in Secaucus. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Thornton had 6.0% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Secaucus
 Secaucus, NJThornton, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student$24,150$14,840$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$20,484$11,298$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$12,233$6,182$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.2718.6716.23
 Students per Librarian262210044573
 Students per Counselor429324530
 Grade School Educ.2.7%4.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.6%7.2%6.3%
 High School Educ.93.6%88.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.12.3%22.4%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.4.0%9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.59.3%29.4%33.7%
 Masters Grad.18.3%6.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.1%1.0%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree3.1%1.0%1.5%
Reviews for Secaucus    1 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

Cost of living is reasonable in comparison to  More

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Reviews for Thornton    5 Reviews

Good place. Very suburbany (similar to the Springs). The houses are very small and old and yet still very expensive (albeit cheaper than southern Denver). Actually lots  More

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Over 4 years ago

I like Denver metro, but some cities aren’t too great. Thornton being one of them. Moved here because of highway access, and convenience to DIA for business travel. Am  More

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Over 9 years ago

The quality of life here in not good. The traffic is bad all the time. To try to get to the mountains takes forever! Also most lakes along the front range you can't even  More

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