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Shelton, WA vs Hillsboro, OR

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Highlights
- Hillsboro spends 14.7% more per student than Shelton.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.1% lower in Hillsboro than in Shelton. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Hillsboro had 12.0% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Shelton
 Shelton, WAHillsboro, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$19,904$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,642  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,532$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio20.03  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock8094573
 Students per Counselor430  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock91.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.13.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock12.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock4.6%1.5%
Reviews for Shelton    5 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

Lived here 13 years. Air smells like chemicals and gasses not to mention how terrible the pollen is. People are either terribly rude, your friends, or follow you home at  More

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Over 6 years ago

Shelton is a town stuck in the mud. Thats the best way to describe it. People like it that way from what I can tell. It's stuck in time between an old town appearance   More

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Below are the crime statistics on Shelton Wa compared to the national average. Several thing you can count on in Shelton is increase crime, homeless living everywhere  More

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Reviews for Hillsboro    10 Reviews

Hillsboro is definitely an improvement over Portland Oregon which went from a beautiful city to a major dump full of homelessness, garbage and crime. We had lived in  More

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Over 2 years ago

I've lived in HIllsboro twice. It is a very diverse part of Portland with tons of immigrants and the best rural flare in the  More

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We lived here for seven years. What we loved about it was it was close to family; everything was close for doctors, shopping, libraries, parks,etc; and much was in  More

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