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Vero Beach, FL vs Richland, WA

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- Richland spends 69.8% more per student than Vero Beach.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 18.9% higher in Richland than in Vero Beach. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Richland had 3.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Vero Beach
 Vero Beach, FLRichland, WAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$18,710$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,951  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,955$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio16.76  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock11224573
 Students per Counselor370  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock96.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.7%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.40.8%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock11.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock4.3%1.5%
Reviews for Vero Beach    22 Reviews

I grew up in Miami, BEFORE you had to wear a bullet proof vest to live there! I have lived in 9 other states and moved back to Fla over 2 years ago. First to Naples  More

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Over 14 years ago

Thanks for sharing fun facts about Vero Beach but more over: Let it be boring....no fun...no bars... After all...where ever the so called "fun" is... rest  More

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Over 14 years ago

relocating to vero beach, understand quite laid back, what to do, we enjoy endlessly, cards, majong, board games, semi formal dinner dances, are we in the right place,  More

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Reviews for Richland    14 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

After spending almost 18 years of my life here arriving at age 36 with 2 children and leaving at 53 Richland is a horrible place to live. The medical care as a whole is  More

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Richland has grown a lot and is getting lots of retirees, it has great weather, great food not all chain restaurants, but has them also. the people are friendly, lots  More

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I have lived here a few years and it’s the worst place I’ve ever been. The “ nice weather” people refer to is 100 degree hot can’t even stand outside at 9am without  More

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