2024 Compare Cities Education:
Vallejo, CA vs Santa Cruz, CA

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Highlights
- Santa Cruz spends 17.2% more per student than Vallejo.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 5.0% lower in Santa Cruz than in Vallejo. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Santa Cruz had 9.0% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Vallejo
 Vallejo, CASanta Cruz, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$13,968$16,364$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,346$13,552$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$6,685$7,688$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio2321.8416.23
 Students per Librarian625362714573
 Students per Counselor867473530
 Grade School Educ.6.4%2.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.8%1.9%6.3%
 High School Educ.87.8%95.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.5%19.7%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.10.1%8.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.27.4%56.6%33.7%
 Masters Grad.5.8%18.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.6%4.9%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree0.8%5.5%1.5%
Reviews for Vallejo    32 Reviews

Over 4 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 6 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 6 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 Santa Cruz    44 Reviews

I lived in the Santa Cruz area for 20 years. UCSC alum. Our kids were born there. There are wonderful things about Santa Cruz, but also many serious problems that we  More

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Over 4 years ago

I have been here for four generations! My kids are the fifth. I guess that should tell you how wonderful it is here, at least for us. It's so cool to have world class  More

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I was born over the hill in San Jose area, and as a kid I loved coming over to the boardwalk. Santa Cruz has always been and always will be a town of diversity,  More

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