32.9% ▲ +37.9%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 32.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Yeoval · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Yeoval
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people in Yeoval have completed high school or university than in most other similar areas. Only 32.9% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This trend carries through to higher education, with a much lower proportion of adults holding degrees compared to the rest of the state.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 32.9% of residents completed Year 12, a figure far below the national average of 58.8%. An equal number of people, 32.9%, listed Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →Yeoval splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (36%) and Year 10 (36%), with Year 9 or below at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 9.3% of the population, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%. The most common qualification held is a Certificate III or IV, at 44.5%.
9.3% ▲ +52.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Yeoval, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 56%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Yeoval are spread across several fields, with Engineering and Society and Culture both accounting for 15.5% of degrees and certificates.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a high number of schools for its child population, but these are much smaller and have lower advantage scores than most other similar areas. Half of the schools are government-run and the other half are Catholic.
32.79
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
2
Higher than 62% 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).
53
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
901
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Yeoval
2 schools — 105 students, average ICSEA 901.
By sector: Catholic 1 · Government 1
By type: Primary 1 · Combined 1
| St Columba's Catholic Primary School Yeoval, Yeoval | Catholic | Primary | 6.2 km | 30 | 1,008 |
| Yeoval Central School, Yeoval | Government | Combined | 6.3 km | 75 | 858 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Yeoval [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14525/yeoval/topic/education