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Virginia Beach, VA vs Columbia, MD

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Highlights
- Columbia spends 32.0% more per student than Virginia Beach.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 12.8% lower in Columbia than in Virginia Beach. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Columbia had 0.8% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Virginia Beach

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 Virginia Beach, VAColumbia, MDUnited States
 Expend. per Student$13,565$17,912$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,028$16,615$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,014$11,381$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.4413.4616.23
 Students per Librarian6123634573
 Students per Counselor322331530
 Grade School Educ.1.7%2.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.8%2.0%6.3%
 High School Educ.94.5%95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.24.1%14.0%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.11.0%5.7%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.38.6%62.8%33.7%
 Masters Grad.10.7%23.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.3%4.8%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.4%5.7%1.5%

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Reviews for Virginia Beach    95 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

If you lived here prior to 2005, your experience in Virginia Beach is likely between good and wonderful. There are still pros to living here. Other reviews have  More

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Over 5 years ago

I lived in the Hampton Roads area for 11 years while I was in the Navy. It was a bit of a culture shock, since I grew up in a small rural town in Maine with 900 people.  More

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Over 6 years ago

I lived in the Kempsville area of VB growing up and loved it. There's no way to be bored when you have so many public and neighborhood parks, libraries, events,  More

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Reviews for Columbia    28 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

Lived here for a while, beautiful opportunities, pays well, overall nice  More

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Been here 30 years was great at first but once they added a transit bus from baltimore to columbia 15-18 years ago that was the beginning of the end. And about 5 years  More

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Columbia can be described in one word: unequal. The neighborhood I live in, River Hill, is jam-packed with almost million-dollar homes, while the neighborhoods of Long  More

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