2
Higher than 62% 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).
Tarban · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Tarban
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A huge gap exists between the schooling experience in Tarban and the rest of the state. Education here is focused on small-scale primary schooling, with local school advantage scores among the lowest for similar areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The most common highest year of school is Year 9 or below at 46%, ahead of Year 12 (23%).
Highest year of school
View on map →In Tarban, the largest group is Year 9 or below at 50%, followed by Year 12 (25%) and Year 10 (25%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The most common highest qualification level is Certificate III / IV at 57%, ahead of Postgraduate degree (0%).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Tarban, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Management & commerce at 43%, ahead of Natural & physical sciences (0%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are two primary schools within 3km, both of which are government-run. These schools are very small, with an average of 17 students, and their advantage scores are among the lowest at this level.
17
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
877
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Tarban
2 schools — 33 students, average ICSEA 877.
By sector: Government 2
By type: Primary 2
| Jennings Public School, Jennings | Government | Primary | 7.2 km | 10 | 795 |
| Wallangarra State School, Wallangarra | Government | Primary | 7.8 km | 23 | 912 |
Sources
- Australian Schools List — Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2025 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Tarban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13776/tarban/topic/education