37.1% ▲ +7.8%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Delegate · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Delegate
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 22 percentage points separates Delegate from the state average in Year 12 completion. This highlights a community where formal schooling and higher degrees are much less common than in most other parts of Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.1% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. Many locals left school earlier, with 27.9% reaching Year 10 and 16.7% finishing Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Delegate, the largest group is Year 12 at 42%, followed by Year 10 (32%) and Year 9 or below (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare here, with only 10.9% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the national figure of 26.3%, while Certificate III or IV qualifications are more common at 38.5%.
10.9% ▲ +40.4%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 10.9%
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 Delegate, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 27%.
Field of study
What people studied.
People with qualifications in this area often specialise in Engineering (15.6%) or Agriculture and environment (13.8%). Other common fields include Society and culture and Management and commerce.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a high number of schools per child, though the only local school is a small government primary school with an average of just 22 students.
20.41
Higher than 88% 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).
22
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
982
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Delegate
1 school — 22 students, average ICSEA 982.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Delegate Public School, Delegate | Government | Primary | 3.0 km | 22 | 982 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Delegate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11235/delegate/topic/education