46.5% —
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.0%
- 2021: 46.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wamban · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wamban
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Qualification levels in Wamban have remained largely stable over the last decade, though they sit well below state and national figures. Only 13.7% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, reflecting a trend of lower formal education compared to the wider population.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Fewer people here finished high school than in the wider state, with 46.5% completing Year 12. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wamban, Year 12 is the majority at 57%; Year 10 is next at 29%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Trade and vocational certificates are common, with 37.5% of adults holding a Certificate III or IV. This helps explain why the rate of bachelor degrees is far below the Australian average.
13.7% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 13.7%
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 Wamban, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 52%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are split evenly between Engineering and Society and Culture, each at 16.7%, followed by Management and Commerce at 13.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Wamban has one government secondary school, which is around the middle for its size with 356 students. However, its average school advantage score of 922 is much lower than most areas.
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).
356
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
922
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wamban
1 school — 356 students, average ICSEA 922.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Secondary 1
| Moruya High School, Moruya | Government | Secondary | 10.3 km | 356 | 922 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wamban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14138/wamban/topic/education