45.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 45.5%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Rocky Plain · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Rocky Plain
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than half of the adults in Rocky Plain finished high school, though a fair few have gone on to achieve higher degrees. This gap in basic schooling is matched by a notable 17.7% of residents holding a bachelor degree or higher, which is a higher share than in most similar areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 45.5% of residents completed Year 12, a figure that is far below the New South Wales and national averages by 13 percentage points.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Rocky Plain, Year 12 is the majority at 68%; Year 10 is next at 32%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
While 17.7% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, this is still well below the national figure. Diplomas and Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common, each held by 24.3% of the population.
17.7% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Rocky Plain splits fairly evenly between Advanced diploma / diploma (27%) and Certificate III / IV (27%), with Bachelor degree at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, with Health, Management and commerce, and Society and culture each accounting for 13.5% of degrees.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number of facilities than about 59% of similar places.
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Lower than 99% 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).
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Rocky Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13402/rocky-plain/topic/education