2024 Compare Cities Education:
Thornton, CO vs Alamosa, CO

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Highlights
- Alamosa spends 25.0% less per student than Thornton.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 16.1% lower in Alamosa than in Thornton. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Alamosa had 0.8% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Thornton
 Thornton, COAlamosa, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student$14,840$11,124$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,298$10,048$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$6,182$5,660$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.6715.6616.23
 Students per Librarian10044874573
 Students per Counselor324182530
 Grade School Educ.4.8%7.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.2%3.8%6.3%
 High School Educ.88.0%88.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.4%25.0%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.9.4%10.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.29.4%23.9%33.7%
 Masters Grad.6.8%6.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%1.4%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.0%2.8%1.5%
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 4 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 9 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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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 11 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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