63.7% ▲ +24.1%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.3%
- 2016: 56.7%
- 2021: 63.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mount Kembla · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Mount Kembla
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Over nine percentage points more adults in Mount Kembla hold a bachelor degree or higher than the Australian average. This is a highly educated area where school completion and university degrees are both well above the national figures. Most residents have a strong academic background, with a wide variety of professional qualifications.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is well above the national figure at 63.7%, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Mount Kembla, Year 12 is the majority at 66%; Year 10 is next at 23%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by 35.7% of adults, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This is driven largely by 33.3% of adults holding a bachelor degree.
35.7% ▲ +49.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 35.7%
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 Mount Kembla, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 36%, followed by Certificate III / IV (28%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in management and commerce at 18.8%, followed closely by engineering at 18% and education at 13.6%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are 15 schools within 3km, a number larger than about 86% of similar areas. These schools have an average advantage score of 1,052, which is much higher than most areas.
4.48
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
15
Higher than 86% 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).
376
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,052
Higher than 79% 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 Kembla
15 schools — 5,636 students, average ICSEA 1,052.
By sector: Government 9 · Independent 5 · Catholic 1
By type: Primary 9 · Combined 3 · Secondary 3
| Mount Kembla Public School, Mount Kembla | Government | Primary | 0.4 km | 159 | 1,050 |
| Illawarra Christian School, Cordeaux Heights | Independent | Combined | 1.9 km | 800 | 1,091 |
| Craig Davis College, Cordeaux Heights | Independent | Secondary | 2.3 km | 45 | 825 |
| Unanderra Public School, Cordeaux Heights | Government | Primary | 2.4 km | 348 | 992 |
| Nareena Hills Public School, Figtree | Government | Primary | 2.7 km | 209 | 1,080 |
| Cedars Christian College - Aspire, Unanderra | Independent | Combined | 3.0 km | 13 | 1,094 |
| Cedars Christian College, Unanderra | Independent | Combined | 3.1 km | 661 | 1,067 |
| St Pius X Catholic Primary School, Unanderra | Catholic | Primary | 3.3 km | 371 | 1,066 |
| Figtree Heights Public School, Figtree | Government | Primary | 3.4 km | 181 | 1,061 |
| Figtree High School, Figtree | Government | Secondary | 3.5 km | 880 | 1,013 |
| Figtree Public School, Figtree | Government | Primary | 3.5 km | 264 | 1,028 |
| Farmborough Road Public School, Unanderra | Government | Primary | 3.8 km | 226 | 961 |
| Lindsay Park Public School, Wollongong | Government | Primary | 3.9 km | 334 | 1,068 |
| Mount Keira Public School, Mount Keira | Government | Primary | 4.0 km | 91 | 1,072 |
| Edmund Rice College, West Wollongong | Independent | Secondary | 4.2 km | 1,054 | 1,083 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mount Kembla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12780/mount-kembla/topic/education