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Washington, DC vs Boise City, ID

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Highlights
- Boise City spends 69.4% less per student than Washington.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 53.0% higher in Boise City than in Washington. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 3.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Washington

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 Washington, DCBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student$30,279$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$23,069$8,035$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$11,354$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio11.6517.8216.23
 Students per Librarian79610314573
 Students per Counselor445430530
 Grade School Educ.3.2%1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.5%3.3%6.3%
 High School Educ.92.2%95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.12.4%22.8%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.3.0%8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.61.4%43.7%33.7%
 Masters Grad.21.9%10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree9.7%2.8%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree4.3%2.0%1.5%

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Reviews for Washington    97 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Living in DC long term brings on a kind of insidious misery. A long, slow, simmering down of any natural optimism or desire for a better future. It’s a leach of a town  More

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Over 4 years ago

Parts are beautiful but alot is rundown and ghetto. They always show the monuments and upper nw neighborhoods but never show hoods across the Anacostia River. Crime is  More

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Moved to DC 40 years ago from Mpls-St. Paul. DC is an amazing town. Downside is people are very competitive, everything is expensive. Great restaurants, foodie heaven  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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ZIPS IN WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
20011, 20002, 20019, 20020, 20009, 20001, 20032, 20016, 20010, 20003, 45 total
ZIPS IN BOISE CITY, IDAHO
83709 83704 83706 83713 83705 83702 83716 83703 83712

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