2025 Compare Cities Education:
Tucson, AZ vs Pacific Grove, CA

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Highlights
- Pacific Grove spends 42.9% more per student than Tucson.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 30.4% higher in Pacific Grove than in Tucson. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Pacific Grove had 11.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Tucson
 Tucson, AZPacific Grove, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,375$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$8,897  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,645$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio16.66  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock289524573
 Students per Counselor519  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock96.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.7%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.28.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock16.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock5.3%1.5%
Reviews for Tucson    287 Reviews

My wife and I characterize ourselves as a young couple, well educated, with decent positions and we’re Tucson natives. We’ve observed our quality of life from both a  More

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Over 1 years ago

I was reading the reviews for Tucson, and after living there for 6 years, I feel the need to weigh in. There are many pros in Tucson: access to recreational areas,  More

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I spend considerable time in and around Tucson, and I've see it rapidly going "downhill" since 2020. It's definitely not the nice town I remember from when I was a  More

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Reviews for Pacific Grove    3 Reviews

We had vacationed in the Monterey Bay Area for 40 years and really liked it, so we leased an apartment in Pacific Grove for a year to see if we would like to purchase  More

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Over 19 years ago

PG is a wonderful town, although with a four-year old child, the town feels old. It is prohibitively expensive to live in PG with the Average home close to a million  More

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We were welcomed to the community and had great  More

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