2025 Compare Cities Education:
Suffern, NY vs East Orange, NJ

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Highlights
- East Orange spends 12.3% less per student than Suffern.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.6% higher in East Orange than in Suffern. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- East Orange had 5.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Suffern
 Suffern, NYEast Orange, NJUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$26,449$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$27,847  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,580$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.44  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock12374573
 Students per Counselor318  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.15.7%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.45.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock5.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.6%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.5%1.5%
Reviews for Suffern    4 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

Great place to raise a  More

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If you want to know what I can't stand about going to visit my parents in Suffern, it's the fact that the Hasidic Jews from other parts of the town of  More

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Suffern has express trains that allow you to get to NYC in under an hour. It has agrets bakery downtown (Crumbs) a movie theater with an organ, all different types of  More

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Reviews for East Orange    3 Reviews

Over 14 years ago

East Orange was once the most beautiful city in the county of Essex. The city is being taken over by gangs and drugs. There is too many guns in our  More

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Over 15 years ago

If you think Newark, NJ is bad, visit East Orange. Newark at least has a plan for recovery. The plan will eventually fail but at least there are some bright spots   More

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Over 19 years ago

COL is very high where I live. Am looking to relocate out of  More

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