Homeschooling Charlie allows us to take Field Trips any time we want and any where we want. Which is why I was excited to find 100 most populous cities in the U.S. for Field Trips and I thought you might want to check out the list as well.
As students nationwide are unpacking a backpack of homework each night, they may also be bringing home a few permission slips.
The team at e-conolight wanted to conduct a back-to-school study dealing with the more fun side of education. They compiled a list of the 100 most populous cities in the U.S. and ranked them based on factors that would be important to school field trips, such as the number of museums and zoos, the cost of a lunch meal, the crime index of a city and much more. To determine the cities with the highest and lowest concentration of school field trip destinations per square mile, they summed up all the field trip locations within each city and divided it by the city’s total land area in square miles. Here’s what they found:
The Cities With the Most Places to Field Trip:
You can find the full study here
ere are the top four U.S. cities for field trips:
- Harrisburg, PA
- No. of Fire & Police Stations (per 100K): 33.2
- No. of Food Banks (per 100K): 4.4
- No. of School Bus Drivers (per 100K): 199.6
- Overall City Score: 68.2/100
- Scranton, PA
- No. of Fire & Police Stations (per 100K): 47.4
- No. of School Bus Drivers (per 100K): 184.9
- Crime Index Score: 27
- Overall City Score: 65.5/100
- Poughkeepsie, NY
- No. of Fire & Police Stations (per 100K): 33.6
- No. of Kid-Friendly Public Libraries (per 100K): 7.6
- Cost of a Lunch Meal: $8.00
- Overall City Score: 62.3/100
- Springfield, MA
- No. of Kid-Friendly Public Libraries (per 100K): 12.8
- No. of Food Banks (per 100K): 4.2
- Walkability Score: 58
- Overall City Score: 61.0/100
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
