2025 Compare Cities Education:
Silver Spring, MD vs Boise City, ID

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- Boise City spends 53.0% less per student than Silver Spring.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 30.7% higher in Boise City than in Silver Spring. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 9.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Silver Spring
 Silver Spring, MDBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,697  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.63  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor292  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.10.3%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.58.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.7%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Silver Spring    18 Reviews

Growing up in Silver Spring, my family and I have been residents for the better part of 25 years. Although some of the development has been great (Discovery Channel, new  More

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What a delightful school! The first time we drove up to the school, our first impression was of the charming shaded playground with wooden structures and surrounding  More

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What a delightful school! The first time we drove up to the school, our first impression was of the charming shaded playground with wooden structures and surrounding  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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