42.6% ▲ +1.5%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.0%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Lue · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Lue
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 11% of adults in Lue hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national figure. This creates a local profile where most residents have a trade or school-level education rather than university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
School completion rates are far below the New South Wales average, with 42.6% of people finishing Year 12. Roughly 29% of residents stopped after Year 10, and another 13.6% left at Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Lue, the largest group is Year 12 at 49%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (16%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Trade certificates are the most common qualification here, held by 44.9% of adults. This is consistent with the area's low rate of university degrees, which sits 15 points below the Australian average.
11.0% ▼ -34.6%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 11.0%
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 Lue, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 59%; Bachelor degree is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with higher qualifications, the most common fields are Engineering (18.4%), Management and Commerce (15.3%), and Architecture and Building (13.3%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Lue has one small government primary school with an average size of just 26 students. While it has a high number of schools per 1,000 children, the average school advantage score is among the lowest for its level.
27.03
Higher than 92% 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).
26
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
886
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Lue
1 school — 26 students, average ICSEA 886.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Lue Public School, Lue | Government | Primary | 1.3 km | 26 | 886 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Lue [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12429/lue/topic/education