61.5% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 61.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mountain Top · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Mountain Top
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Better-than-average school completion rates define the local workforce in Mountain Top, where 61.5% of residents finished Year 12. This higher level of basic schooling supports a diverse range of professional skills across the community.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
A little more than six in ten people finished Year 12, which is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the national figure of 58.8%. About 30.8% of residents stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Mountain Top, Year 12 is the majority at 67%; Year 10 is next at 33%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
While 19.1% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, this is well below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%. The most common highest qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 40.7% of the population.
19.1% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 19.1%
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 Mountain Top, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Postgraduate degree (39%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (13%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with education being the most common at 22.2%, followed by agriculture and environment at 14.8% and engineering at 11.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government-run combined school within 3 km, which is more than about 59% of similar areas. This school has a typical size of 245 students, though its average advantage score is 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).
245
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
956
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Mountain Top
1 school — 245 students, average ICSEA 956.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Nimbin Central School, Nimbin | Government | Combined | 4.9 km | 245 | 956 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mountain Top [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12818/mountain-top/topic/education