27.7% ▲ +23.4%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mount George · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Mount George
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Roughly 40% of qualified adults in Mount George hold a Certificate III or IV. This is a place where far fewer people have finished high school or university compared to the rest of the state.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 27.7% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. The most common highest year of school completed here is Year 10, at 37.4%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Mount George, the largest group is Year 10 at 42%, followed by Year 12 (31%) and Year 9 or below (20%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by only 7.3% of adults, a figure far below the 26.3% national average. Most qualifications are trade-based, with Certificate III or IV being the most common at 40.2%.
7.3% ▲ +93.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 7.3%
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 Mount George, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 58%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are Engineering and related subjects at 18.9%, followed by Society and Culture at 11% and Management and Commerce at 9.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one primary school in the area, which is a government facility. While the number of schools per 1,000 children is much higher than most areas, the average school size is among the lowest at just 23 students.
19.23
Higher than 87% 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).
23
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
932
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Mount George
1 school — 23 students, average ICSEA 932.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Mount George Public School, Mount George | Government | Primary | 2.1 km | 23 | 932 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mount George [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12772/mount-george/topic/education