2025 Compare Cities Education:
Springville, UT vs Thornton, CO

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Highlights
- Thornton spends 50.9% more per student than Springville.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 23.6% lower in Thornton than in Springville. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Thornton had 5.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Springville
 Springville, UTThornton, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,840$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$7,485  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,182$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio24.43  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10044573
 Students per Counselor556  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.37.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.0%1.5%
Reviews for Springville    3 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

Just bought a house here in Springville in May 2012. Our utilites have been outrageous. Our bill this month in October is $435. That is not a typo. We paid over $400  More

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Over 16 years ago

Springville is possibly one of the best places to live and visit. It is a bedroom community where most big businesses trying to squeeze into town have to build along  More

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Over 19 years ago

Great  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 5 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 10 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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