40.8% ▲ +28.9%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 40.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Yamba · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Yamba
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than half of adults in Yamba finished Year 12, creating a far larger gap in school completions compared to the rest of New South Wales. This trend carries through to higher education, where the share of people with university degrees is well below the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 40.8% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the 58.9% seen across New South Wales. About 31.5% of the population had Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Yamba, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (34%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University qualifications are less common here, with only 16.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%, though Certificate III and IV qualifications are more typical at 31.9%.
16.4% ▲ +64.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 16.4%
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 Yamba, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 41%, followed by Bachelor degree (25%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (20%).
Field of study
What people studied.
People with qualifications in Yamba most often studied management and commerce (15.7%) or engineering and related fields (13.7%), followed by education at 11%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Local schools are typically smaller than most, with an average size of 157 students. While there are only four schools within 3km, they have a higher average advantage score than most areas.
2.41
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
4
Higher than 71% 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).
157
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,005
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Yamba
4 schools — 629 students, average ICSEA 1,005.
By sector: Government 3 · Catholic 1
By type: Primary 4
| St James' Primary School, Yamba | Catholic | Primary | 1.0 km | 182 | 1,074 |
| Yamba Public School, Yamba | Government | Primary | 1.3 km | 295 | 978 |
| Iluka Public School, Iluka | Government | Primary | 3.3 km | 96 | 996 |
| Palmers Island Public School, Palmers Island | Government | Primary | 5.5 km | 56 | 944 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Yamba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14476/yamba/topic/education