40.6% ▲ +3.9%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.1%
- 2016: 45.7%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Beech Forest · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Beech Forest
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people finished high school in Beech Forest than in most other areas, with only 40.6% completing Year 12. While university degrees are more common here than in similar small areas, the community still sits well below the national average for higher education.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 40.6% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. About 14.2% of the population left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Beech Forest, Year 12 is the majority at 52%; Year 9 or below is next at 18%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 19.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas but well below the Australian average of 26.3%. Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification at 28.7%.
19.6% ▲ +31.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 19.6%
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 Beech Forest, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 44%, followed by Bachelor degree (33%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (10%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study for residents are society and culture at 11.3%, followed by architecture and building and management and commerce, both at 10.0%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number than about 59% of similar areas.
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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 Beech Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20185/beech-forest/topic/education