2025 Compare Cities Education:
Sparks, NV vs Gallup, NM

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Highlights
- Gallup spends 15.3% more per student than Sparks.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 12.9% higher in Gallup than in Sparks. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Gallup had 0.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Sparks
 Sparks, NVGallup, NMUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,714$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,842  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,163$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio16.14  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock63384573
 Students per Counselor336  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock5.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock84.9%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.24.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock7.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.3%1.5%
Reviews for Sparks    14 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

Nice place to live. Lots of events, recreation, and  More

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LOVE it! Fifth generation Reno/Sparks native. Paternal great grandparents born and raised in Reno. Sparks has an old fashioned home town feeling. I love Sparks! Great  More

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Over 17 years ago

Do not listen to the Californian. Sparks has all 4 seasons. It does snow here but the snow is very wet and melts quickly and it does not snow six months out of the year.  More

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Reviews for Gallup    7 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

I have lived in Gallup for over 20 years and find this area very interesting. The tourist just blowing through see the vagrants & general run-down appearance, turn up  More

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Over 13 years ago

Gallup NM has great places to hike around and minimal cultural diversity. I found most of the white folk ( I am caucasion) to be super red neck.. I am having a hard time  More

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Over 14 years ago

I have to argue with the so called statistics. There are 3 kinds of lies and this is one of them in my view. I am/was an ER nurse and we see the worst a society has to  More

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