42.9% —
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 46.4%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Yarrabandai · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Yarrabandai
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Zero adults in Yarrabandai hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the national average. This reflects a trend of low formal higher education in the area, where fewer than half of the residents finished Year 12.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 42.9% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the 58.9% seen across New South Wales. This puts Yarrabandai around the middle of similar areas, though 28.6% of residents stopped at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Yarrabandai, Year 12 is the majority at 60%; Year 10 is next at 40%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a university degree is far below both the state (27.8%) and national (26.3%) figures.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Agriculture & environment at 26%, ahead of Management & commerce (21%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller than about 59% of similar places.
0
Lower than 99% 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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Yarrabandai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14487/yarrabandai/topic/education