44.4% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Toothdale · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Toothdale
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 14 percentage points separates Toothdale from the state and national figures for Year 12 completions. While 22.5% of adults hold a university degree, which is higher than most similar areas, the community generally has lower formal schooling levels than the wider Australian population.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 44.4% of residents finished Year 12, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 58.9%. Roughly a third of people stopped their formal schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Toothdale, Year 12 is the majority at 50%; Year 10 is next at 38%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 22.5% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 38.4% of residents.
22.5% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 22.5%
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 Toothdale, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 44%, followed by Bachelor degree (26%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Toothdale are spread across several fields, with Engineering and Management and Commerce both accounting for 15.2% of degrees.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, which is much smaller than most similar schools with an average size of 84 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).
84
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
982
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Toothdale
1 school — 84 students, average ICSEA 982.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Candelo Public School, Candelo | Government | Primary | 5.1 km | 84 | 982 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Toothdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13932/toothdale/topic/education