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Yelm, WA vs Post Falls, ID

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Highlights
- Post Falls spends 48.5% less per student than Yelm.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 5.2% higher in Post Falls than in Yelm. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Post Falls had 0.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Yelm

Education
 Yelm, WAPost Falls, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student$17,104$8,804$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,853$8,177$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$8,162$5,065$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio1818.9416.23
 Students per Librarian124610634573
 Students per Counselor439402530
 Grade School Educ.0.8%1.4%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.8%5.5%6.3%
 High School Educ.93.5%93.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.35.6%32.8%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.14.3%9.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.20.0%21.1%33.7%
 Masters Grad.5.3%3.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.7%1.0%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree0.0%0.3%1.5%

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Reviews for Yelm    2 Reviews

Over 15 years ago

Yelm is a very nice city to live in. Small enough to have that small town flavor but big enough not to be cramped. Has access to pretty much everywhere you want to go.  More

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I've lived in Yelm 2 years now and LOVE IT! We moved here to get away of the crazyness and extreamly crampedness of the "suburbia"of Puyallup which is just outside of  More

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Reviews for Post Falls    6 Reviews

In moving here I knew about the snow. Not a matter of if but how much. What I didn't know was how windy it gets and how often. I also didn't know about the dust. It's  More

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Over 5 years ago

Moved here from Seattle in 2018. Even though the population is under 40,000 it doesn't feel like small town Mayberry. The biggest mistake I see happening is the building  More

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Post Falls had great potential; too bad the city planning committee blew it! It's such a disorganized bunch of housing communities built just what looks like where ever  More

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