35.6% ▲ +6.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Brookfield · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Brookfield
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 23 percentage points separates Brookfield from the state average for Year 12 completion. This is a community where few residents have finished high school, and university degrees are far less common than across Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 35.6% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. About 34% of residents left school after Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Brookfield splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (42%) and Year 10 (40%), with Year 9 or below at 11%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 15.6% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 35.3% of adults.
15.6% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 15.6%
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 Brookfield, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 47%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (23%) and Bachelor degree (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are management and commerce at 18.8%, followed by engineering and related fields at 15.8%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, though its average size of 27 students and its school advantage score are both much lower than most similar areas.
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).
27
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
945
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Brookfield
1 school — 27 students, average ICSEA 945.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Glen William Public School, Clarence Town | Government | Primary | 4.3 km | 27 | 945 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Brookfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10593/brookfield/topic/education