54.4% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 53.8%
- 2021: 54.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Earlston · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Earlston
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A surprisingly high number of university degrees shapes the adult population in Earlston, even though school completion rates are lower than average. About 24.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 54.4% of residents finished Year 12, a figure that is well below both the Victorian and national averages. Over a fifth of people left school after Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Earlston, Year 12 is the majority at 62%; Year 10 is next at 25%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University qualifications are common here, with 24.6% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. While this is much higher than in similar areas, it remains a little below the Australian figure of 26.3%.
24.6% —
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Earlston splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (27%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (27%), with Certificate III / IV at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with Architecture and Building and Society and Culture both accounting for 13% of the total. Agriculture and Health each make up 11.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Daily life here involves travel for education, as there are no schools within 3 km of the area.
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).
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Earlston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20826/earlston/topic/education