23.2% ▲ +12.8%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Menindee · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Menindee
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 23.2% of people in Menindee have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure. This low rate of secondary school completion is a defining feature of the area's education profile, contributing to a smaller share of adults with university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is among the lowest for similar areas, sitting 36 points below both the state and national figures. Roughly 24% of residents left school in Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →Menindee splits fairly evenly between Year 9 or below (31%) and Year 12 (30%), with Year 10 at 28%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 8.7% of the population, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%. The most common qualification here is a Certificate III or IV, held by 25% of adults.
8.7% ▲ +46.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Menindee, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 46%, followed by Bachelor degree (21%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (13%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Common fields of qualification in the area include education at 8.8%, followed by agriculture and environment at 8.3% and engineering at 7.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Menindee has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the typical school is much smaller with only 74 students. All local schools are government-run combined campuses.
12.82
Higher than 80% 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).
74
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
760
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Menindee
1 school — 74 students, average ICSEA 760.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Menindee Central School, Menindee | Government | Combined | 26.2 km | 74 | 760 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Menindee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12582/menindee/topic/education