35.5% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Willbriggie · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Willbriggie
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 23 percentage points separates Willbriggie from the rest of the country in high school completion. While a fair number of adults hold university degrees, far fewer residents finished Year 12 than the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 35.5% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. The most common highest year of school completed is Year 10, at 36.6%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Willbriggie splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (42%) and Year 12 (41%), with Year 11 at 10%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by 17.7% of adults, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the Australian average of 26.3%. Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common, held by 27.6% of people.
17.7% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
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 Willbriggie, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 39%, followed by Bachelor degree (27%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (20%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in management and commerce are the most frequent at 20.7%, followed by engineering and related fields at 17.2% and agriculture and environment at 12.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one primary school within 3km, which is a government school with a small average size of 88 students. This school's advantage score is among the lowest at this level.
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).
88
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
870
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 Willbriggie
1 school — 88 students, average ICSEA 870.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Darlington Point Public School, Darlington Point | Government | Primary | 12.3 km | 88 | 870 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Willbriggie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14313/willbriggie/topic/education