38.6% ▲ +39.5%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Barry · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Barry
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Forty per cent of people in Barry have Year 10 as their highest level of schooling. This is a small community where a significant number of adults hold trade qualifications, though far fewer finished high school compared to the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 38.6% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the 58.8% national figure and the New South Wales rate of 58.9%. This is lower than most similar areas.
Highest year of school
View on map →Barry splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (45%) and Year 12 (43%), with Year 9 or below at 9%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 19.4% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is higher than most similar areas, though still well below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 34.2% of people.
19.4% ▲ +91.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Barry, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 40%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (24%) and Bachelor degree (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with Engineering and Society & Culture both at 15.2%, followed by Management & Commerce at 13.9% and Agriculture & Environment at 12.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, a situation that is more common than in about 59% of similar places.
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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools serving the area — within 3 km of small areas, or inside larger ones. A measure of access (catchments overlap, so don't add it across areas).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Barry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10219/barry/topic/education