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Palo Alto is California's most educated city
- 11-15-2011
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By Joanna Lin/California Watch
About 8 of 10 Palo Alto residents hold at least a bachelor's degree, making the Silicon Valley hotspot California's most educated city, recently released census data show. The city, which tech giants Facebook and Hewlett-Packard call home, also has the state's highest rate of graduate or professional degrees among residents age 25 and older: 49.8 percent, according to the 2008-10 American Community Survey. Statewide, 80.6 percent of Californians are at least high school graduates, 3 of 10 have a bachelor's degree or higher, and 10.9 percent have a graduate or professional degree. For 1 in 5 residents, the highest level of education attained is a high school diploma or equivalent. More than 2.5 million reached less than ninth grade in school, including nearly 553,000 – 2.3 percent of the state's population – who completed no schooling, data show. (more...)
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