45.5% ▲ +33.3%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.1%
- 2016: 47.6%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Byawatha · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Byawatha
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More adults hold a university degree in Byawatha than in most similar areas. While high-level qualifications are common, far fewer people here finished Year 12 compared to the state and national figures. This creates a unique split between those with high-level degrees and those who left school early.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 45.5% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8% and the national average of 58.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Byawatha, the largest group is Year 12 at 50%, followed by Year 10 (27%) and Year 11 (15%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by 27.7% of adults, a rate much higher than most similar areas. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV at 37.3%.
27.7% ▲ +119.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Byawatha splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (35%) and Bachelor degree (31%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with education (14.5%), engineering (13.3%), and health (13.3%) being the most common.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, which is much smaller than most others with a typical size of 29 students.
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).
29
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,012
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Byawatha
1 school — 29 students, average ICSEA 1,012.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Carraragarmungee Primary School, Londrigan | Government | Primary | 4.6 km | 29 | 1,012 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Byawatha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20434/byawatha/topic/education