29.1% ▲ +60.5%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 29.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Deepwater · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Deepwater
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 29.1% of residents in Deepwater finished Year 12, a figure far below the national average. This gap in schooling is reflected in the low number of adults with university degrees compared to the rest of Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Far fewer people here finished high school than in most other areas, with only 29.1% completing Year 12. This is 30 points lower than the New South Wales and national figures.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Deepwater, the largest group is Year 10 at 41%, followed by Year 12 (34%) and Year 9 or below (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is less common here, with just 9% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the New South Wales average of 27.8%.
9.0% ▲ +28.7%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 9.0%
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 Deepwater, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are most often in engineering and related fields at 14.9%, followed by management and commerce at 11.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a very high number of schools per 1,000 children, though the local government primary school is among the smallest in the country with an average of just 17 students.
21.74
Higher than 89% 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).
17
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
960
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Deepwater
1 school — 17 students, average ICSEA 960.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Deepwater Public School, Deepwater | Government | Primary | 10.1 km | 17 | 960 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Deepwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11233/deepwater/topic/education