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Vallejo, CA vs Pittsfield, MA

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Highlights
- Pittsfield spends 67.3% more per student than Vallejo.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 55.2% lower in Pittsfield than in Vallejo. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Pittsfield had 5.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Vallejo
 Vallejo, CAPittsfield, MAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$23,370$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,346  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$12,441$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio23  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock3974573
 Students per Counselor867  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.27.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock9.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.6%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.2%1.5%
Reviews for Vallejo    32 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

If you move to Vallejo, you will quickly realize that you're paying a lot of money to live in well-polished squalor. I moved to Vallejo in mid-2008 just as the city  More

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Over 7 years ago

I would love to live in a place where there are not fireworks all year round or gunshots every night. Police are understaffed and overworked and this is coming from a  More

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Over 7 years ago

I've lived in Vallejo for 5 years I moved here from Alameda California where I spent about 3 years and before that was in Seattle for 18 years. People said to  More

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Reviews for Pittsfield    6 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

I have grown up in Pittsfield, moved away, and came back. The loss of the GE manufacturing plant in the 80's adversely affected this blue collar city. This is not the  More

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Pittsfield has done nothing to attract any form of business for the 40 of 47 years that I have lived here. The current tax rate is now 3.7% for business property - that  More

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Hello, I was surprised to see Pittsfield, MA, listed as one of the towns with least crime. We've had 4 shootings since the beginning of the year! Where do you get  More

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