45.7% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.5%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 45.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Dookie · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Dookie
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common credential in Dookie, where 34.5% of adults hold one. The area has a smaller proportion of university degrees and Year 12 completions compared to the state and national figures. Overall, it is a community where vocational training is more common than higher academic degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion rates are far below the Victorian and Australian figures, with only 45.7% of residents finishing their final school year. Roughly 19.5% of the population had Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Dookie, the largest group is Year 12 at 50%, followed by Year 10 (21%) and Year 11 (20%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by 17.0% of adults, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%. This is consistent with the low Year 12 completion rate seen across the area.
17.0% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 17.0%
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 Dookie, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 45%, followed by Bachelor degree (23%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (19%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification include engineering and related studies at 14.1%, followed by education, management, and society and culture, which each account for 11.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Dookie has 16.13 schools per 1,000 children, which is much higher than most areas. The local primary school is small, with an average size of 14 students.
16.13
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
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).
14
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,002
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Dookie
1 school — 14 students, average ICSEA 1,002.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Dookie Primary School, Dookie | Government | Primary | 2.1 km | 14 | 1,002 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Dookie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20777/dookie/topic/education