37.5% ▲ +1.0%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Dungowan · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Dungowan
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification in Dungowan, where 42.2% of adults hold one. This is an area where formal schooling and university degrees are far less common than in the rest of the state.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.5% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This is lower than most similar areas.
Highest year of school
View on map →Dungowan splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (42%) and Year 10 (39%), with Year 9 or below at 12%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 10.9% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
10.9% ▼ -19.8%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 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 Dungowan, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are Engineering and related subjects at 18%, followed by Management and commerce at 17.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Dungowan has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the two local primary schools are among the smallest in the country.
14.49
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
2
Higher than 62% 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).
19
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
955
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Dungowan
2 schools — 37 students, average ICSEA 955.
By sector: Government 2
By type: Primary 2
| Dungowan Public School, Dungowan | Government | Primary | 4.6 km | 26 | 1,004 |
| Woolomin Public School, Woolomin | Government | Primary | 9.7 km | 11 | 840 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Dungowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11324/dungowan/topic/education