38.0% ▲ +29.8%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Surf Beach · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Surf Beach
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 21 percentage points separates Surf Beach from the state and national figures for Year 12 completion. Only 38% of people here finished their final year of school, which is far below the New South Wales average of 58.9%. This trend of lower formal schooling extends to higher education, where the area's qualification levels sit well below the national typical.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just 38% of residents completed Year 12, a figure far below the New South Wales and Australian averages. Many residents finished school earlier, with 32.4% reaching Year 10 and 12.5% leaving at Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Surf Beach, the largest group is Year 12 at 43%, followed by Year 10 (36%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 15.4% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 33.2% of residents.
15.4% ▲ +66.7%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Surf Beach, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 45%, followed by Bachelor degree (21%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications are most often trained in management and commerce (15.2%) or engineering and related fields (12.8%). Other common fields include society and culture at 12.2% and health at 10.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are three schools within 3km, more than about 70% of similar areas. These include two primary and one secondary school, though the average school advantage score is much lower than most areas.
3
Higher than 67% 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).
377
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
934
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Surf Beach
3 schools — 1,131 students, average ICSEA 934.
By sector: Government 2 · Catholic 1
By type: Primary 2 · Secondary 1
| Sunshine Bay Public School, Batehaven | Government | Primary | 2.5 km | 203 | 903 |
| St Bernard's Primary School, Batemans Bay, Batehaven | Catholic | Primary | 2.6 km | 394 | 993 |
| Batemans Bay High School, Batehaven | Government | Secondary | 3.8 km | 534 | 902 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Surf Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13712/surf-beach/topic/education