2025 Compare Cities Education:
Sweet Home, OR vs Rochester, MN

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- Rochester spends 18.2% less per student than Sweet Home.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 16.3% higher in Rochester than in Sweet Home. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 17.7% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Sweet Home
 Sweet Home, ORRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,519  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.38  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor325  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.15.6%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.7.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.2%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%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 Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 5 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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