37.0% ▲ +26.6%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Pleasant Hills · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Pleasant Hills
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than 40% of residents in Pleasant Hills finished Year 12, reflecting a community where most people leave school early. This gap is far below the national figure, and university degrees are much less common here than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37% of people completed Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales rate of 58.9%. This is consistent with the fact that 16% of residents left school in Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →Pleasant Hills splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (39%) and Year 10 (34%), with Year 9 or below at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up only 8.7% of the population, far below the Australian figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 34.3% of residents.
8.7% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 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 Pleasant Hills, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 55%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications are most often trained in Engineering and related fields (15.7%), followed by Agriculture and environment and Management and commerce, both at 12.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a high number of schools per 1,000 children, though the typical school size is very small with only 13 students. All local schools are government primary schools.
29.41
Higher than 94% 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).
13
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
920
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Pleasant Hills
1 school — 13 students, average ICSEA 920.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Pleasant Hills Public School, Pleasant Hills | Government | Primary | 1.6 km | 13 | 920 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Pleasant Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13240/pleasant-hills/topic/education