39.0% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Belford · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Belford
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 39% of people in Belford have finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales and national figures. This lower rate of school completion is reflected in the community's qualifications, where trade certificates are much more common than university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The most common highest year of school reached is Year 10 for 40.4% of residents. This contributes to the 39% completion rate for Year 12, which is 20 percentage points lower than the state and national averages.
Highest year of school
View on map →Belford splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (44%) and Year 12 (42%), with Year 9 or below at 10%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Trade certificates are the most common qualification at 43.5%. Only 16.8% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is well below the Australian figure of 26.3%.
16.8% —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 16.8%
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 Belford, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 52%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with higher qualifications, engineering and related fields are the most popular at 25%, followed by management and commerce at 16.3%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are three primary schools within 3 km, which is more than 70% of similar areas. These schools are either government (66.7%) or Catholic (33.3%) run, and have a typical size of 320 students.
3
Higher than 67% 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).
320
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
969
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Belford
3 schools — 960 students, average ICSEA 969.
By sector: Government 2 · Catholic 1
By type: Primary 3
| Rosary Park Catholic School, Branxton | Catholic | Primary | 5.9 km | 375 | 1,002 |
| Branxton Public School, Branxton | Government | Primary | 6.3 km | 540 | 949 |
| Kirkton Public School, Lower Belford | Government | Primary | 6.6 km | 45 | 926 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Belford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10258/belford/topic/education