2025 Compare Cities Education:
Sweet Home, OR vs Alamosa, CO

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- Alamosa spends 38.1% less per student than Sweet Home.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.9% lower in Alamosa than in Sweet Home. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Alamosa had 10.6% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Sweet Home
 Sweet Home, ORAlamosa, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,124$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,519  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,660$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.38  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock4874573
 Students per Counselor325  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock7.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.15.6%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.7.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.8%1.5%
Reviews for Sweet Home    4 Reviews

My son and his family are looking at a job transfer from Medford where fire smoke is getting nearly unbearable. I told him it’s bad in this area too, but what do the  More

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Over 7 years ago

This little town has potential but not enough financial support backing its law enforcement and park area's. Very depressed community and as an old logging town it  More

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Sweet Home is a beautiful town in the mountains with a river running through town. There are two reservoirs within a few minutes drive. Great fishing, boating and  More

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Reviews for Alamosa    5 Reviews

Rating 1 out of 5 This place is absolutely Crawling with meth and heroin addicts. They roam the streets, they constantly knock on your door asking for rides and money.  More

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If want to retire in a nice, quiet place where you can live in isolation, you have a steady stream of income from an outside source, you don't have anything valuable  More

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Over 12 years ago

Honestly Alamosa is probably the worst place ever..It sucks..Especially being African-American here..The people show signs of racism which is confusing to me seeing that  More

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