51.6% ▲ +20.5%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.8%
- 2016: 44.4%
- 2021: 51.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Bowning · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Bowning
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people in Bowning finished high school compared to the state average, with only 51.6% completing Year 12. While this result is higher than in many similar areas, it remains well below the national figure. This gap is mirrored in higher education, where those with university degrees are also significantly fewer than in New South Wales.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About half of the residents finished Year 12, which is a higher rate than most similar areas. However, this is still well below the 58.9% seen across New South Wales.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Bowning, Year 12 is the majority at 55%; Year 10 is next at 27%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 20.2% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the national average of 26.3%. The most common qualifications are Certificate III or IV, held by 30.1% of people.
20.2% ▲ +45.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Bowning splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (36%) and Bachelor degree (33%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are engineering at 15.9%, followed by management and commerce at 13.8% and society and culture at 13.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Bowning has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the typical school is very small with only 26 students. The only school in the area is a government primary school.
9.71
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
1
Lower than 57% 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).
26
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
994
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Bowning
1 school — 26 students, average ICSEA 994.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Bowning Public School, Bowning | Government | Primary | 1.6 km | 26 | 994 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Bowning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10533/bowning/topic/education