42.7% —
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Rollands Plains · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Rollands Plains
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III and IV qualifications are the most common achievement in Rollands Plains, where 33.3% of adults hold one. The area has a lower rate of formal schooling and higher education than the national average, with only 7.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Fewer people here finished high school compared to the rest of the country, with 42.7% completing Year 12. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Rollands Plains splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (43%) and Year 10 (41%), with Year 9 or below at 9%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is much less common here than in most areas. Only 7.4% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
7.4% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Rollands Plains splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (43%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (38%), with Bachelor degree at 15%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study for those with qualifications are management and commerce at 19.2%, followed by health at 17.9% and society and culture at 15.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government primary school within 3km, though it is much smaller than most other schools with an average size of 24 students.
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).
24
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
939
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Rollands Plains
1 school — 24 students, average ICSEA 939.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Rollands Plains Upper Public School, Rollands Plains | Government | Primary | 5.8 km | 24 | 939 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Rollands Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13407/rollands-plains/topic/education