43.4% ▲ +35.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 43.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mount Olive · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Mount Olive
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer people hold university degrees in Mount Olive compared to most similar areas. Only 11.5% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. This reflects a community where trade qualifications are much more common than university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 43.4% of residents completed Year 12, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 58.9%. More than a third of the population reached Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Mount Olive, the largest group is Year 12 at 41%, followed by Year 10 (36%) and Year 9 or below (13%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification, held by 61.8% of adults. This helps explain why the rate of bachelor degrees is far below both the state and national figures.
11.5% ▲ +15.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 11.5%
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 Olive, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 75%; Bachelor degree is next at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common areas of study, making up 42.1% of qualifications. Management and commerce follow at 13.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, which is much smaller than most other schools. Its average advantage score is also much lower than most areas.
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).
56
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
910
Lower than 87% 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 Olive
1 school — 56 students, average ICSEA 910.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Mount Pleasant Public School, Singleton | Government | Primary | 3.4 km | 56 | 910 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mount Olive [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12792/mount-olive/topic/education