2025 Compare Cities Education:
St. Johns, MI vs Bay City, MI

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- Bay City spends 9.9% less per student than St. Johns.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 13.7% lower in Bay City than in St. Johns. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Bay City had 7.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to St. Johns
 St. Johns, MIBay City, MIUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,933$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,646  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,278$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.51  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock7764573
 Students per Counselor573  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.27.7%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.24.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock3.6%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.6%1.5%
Reviews for St. Johns    2 Reviews

Over 15 years ago

St. Johns is a great place to live and work. It has a small town feel but within 30 minutes to Lansing.   More

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Over 17 years ago

The community is close to East Lansing (Michigan State University) and Lansing (State Capital), but yet offers affordable quality housing in a variety of different  More

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Reviews for Bay City    7 Reviews

Bay City offers low prices for homes due to lower population (Current lower demand). Years ago, the population was more than 3x as big due to big lumber industry, etc.  More

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But everything else is going to  More

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There are many pros to Bay City, it is incredibly cheap to live in and most everything is very affordable. The problem is that the economy is terrible and there aren't  More

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