40.7% ▲ +32.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Cooyal · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Cooyal
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 40.7% of people in Cooyal finished Year 12, which is far below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia. This gap in school completions is a defining feature of the local educational profile. While some residents hold high-level degrees, overall schooling levels remain much lower than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 40.7%, which is 18 points lower than the state and national figures. About 33.6% of the population stopped after Year 10, while 7.1% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Cooyal, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 10 (39%) and Year 9 or below (8%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 13.0% of the population, far below the 26.3% national figure. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 33.8% of residents.
13.0% ▲ +127.6%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 13.0%
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 Cooyal, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 57%; Postgraduate degree is next at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Cooyal are led by Engineering and related fields at 18.9%. Other common areas of study include Management and commerce at 13.5% and Health at 12.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of Cooyal, a situation that is more common than in about 59% of similar areas.
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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 Cooyal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11055/cooyal/topic/education