41.5% ▲ +23.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Scone · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Scone
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than half of Scone residents have finished Year 12, a figure far below the New South Wales and national averages. This gap extends to higher education, where the proportion of adults with a university degree is much lower than the state figure. Most local qualifications are trade-based certificates.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just 41.5% of people here completed Year 12, which is 17 percentage points lower than in New South Wales and Australia. Nearly 30% of residents left school after Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Scone, the largest group is Year 12 at 45%, followed by Year 10 (32%) and Year 9 or below (15%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 13.5% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, far below the 27.8% seen across New South Wales. Instead, Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification, held by 40.3% of the population.
13.5% ▲ +29.4%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 13.5%
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 Scone, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 50%; Bachelor degree is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study are engineering and related subjects at 19.5%, followed by management and commerce at 14.9% and health at 11.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are four schools within 3km of the centre, more than 73% of similar areas. Government schools make up half of the sector, while the average school advantage score is lower than most areas.
3.49
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
4
Higher than 71% 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).
387
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
975
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Scone
4 schools — 1,546 students, average ICSEA 975.
By sector: Government 2 · Independent 1 · Catholic 1
By type: Primary 2 · Combined 1 · Secondary 1
| Scone Grammar School, Scone | Independent | Combined | 1.8 km | 692 | 1,025 |
| Scone Public School, Scone | Government | Primary | 1.9 km | 400 | 943 |
| Scone High School, Scone | Government | Secondary | 2.4 km | 316 | 894 |
| St Mary's Primary School, Scone | Catholic | Primary | 2.5 km | 138 | 1,002 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Scone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13518/scone/topic/education