50.0% ▲ +29.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 44.1%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Fish Creek · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Fish Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A high number of university degrees shapes the local knowledge in Fish Creek. While only half of residents finished Year 12, 23% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 50%, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the national figure of 58.8%. Around 18.8% of residents stopped their schooling at Year 11.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Fish Creek, Year 12 is the majority at 54%; Year 11 is next at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 23% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, this is well below the Victoria state figure of 29.2%.
23.0% ▲ +63.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 23.0%
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 Fish Creek, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 35%, followed by Bachelor degree (25%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (19%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Education is the most common field of study at 14%, followed by agriculture and environment at 11.4% and engineering at 11.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Local schools are smaller than most, with an average size of 114 students. There is one government primary school within 3km, and the area has more schools per 1,000 children than most similar places.
6.94
Higher than 67% 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).
114
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,024
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Fish Creek
1 school — 114 students, average ICSEA 1,024.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Fish Creek and District Primary School, Fish Creek | Government | Primary | 3.8 km | 114 | 1,024 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Fish Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20921/fish-creek/topic/education