44.2% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Woodlands · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Woodlands
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people in Woodlands have finished high school compared to the rest of the state. Only 44.2% of residents completed Year 12, which is a gap of about 15 percentage points below both the New South Wales and national figures. This trend continues into higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the state and national figures at 44.2%. Around 30.8% of residents stopped at Year 10, while 11.5% left school at Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Woodlands, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (31%) and Year 11 (13%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 14% of the population, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 36.1% of residents.
14.0% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 14.0%
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 Woodlands, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (22%) and Graduate diploma / certificate (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most popular fields of study are food, hospitality and personal services at 22.2%, followed by health at 13.9%. Education and management and commerce both account for 11.1% of qualifications.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school within 3km. This school is much smaller than those in most other areas, with an average size of 27 students, and it has one of the lowest average advantage scores for its 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).
27
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
818
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Woodlands
1 school — 27 students, average ICSEA 818.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Mogo Public School, Mogo | Government | Primary | 4.2 km | 27 | 818 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Woodlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14405/woodlands/topic/education