2025 Compare Cities Education:
Troy, MI vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 3.2% less per student than Troy.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 18.7% higher in Rochester than in Troy. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 1.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Troy
 Troy, MIRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,595  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor537  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.6%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.13.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.62.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.3%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Troy    9 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

, corruption is like  More

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Over 6 years ago

no one ever visited Troy, that writes this stuff,, Troy has a Black out, of any city corruption, most of the elected city are from the same zip code. and the heavy  More

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Over 8 years ago

This is the safest place to live in Michigan. The schools are ranked in the top of both the state and in the US. When our kids graduated 98% of the graduates went on  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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