42.9% —
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Grangefields · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Grangefields
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A far lower proportion of people have finished high school in Grangefields compared to the rest of Victoria. Only 42.9% of residents completed Year 12, which is 19 percentage points below the state figure. This gap is reflected in a workforce where no adults hold a bachelor's degree.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
School completion is much lower than the national figure, with 42.9% finishing Year 12. About 22.9% of residents stopped at Year 10, while 20% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Grangefields, the largest group is Year 12 at 45%, followed by Year 10 (24%) and Year 9 or below (21%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in the area hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the 29.2% seen across Victoria. Instead, the most common qualifications are Certificate III or IV, held by 54.2% of residents.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Grangefields, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 67%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 33%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in Engineering and related fields at 18.8%, followed by Architecture and building and Food, hospitality and personal services, which both stand at 16.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Grangefields has six schools within 3km, which is more than 77% of similar areas. These schools are larger than most, with an average size of 566 students, and 83.3% are government schools.
6
Higher than 74% 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).
566
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,038
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Grangefields
6 schools — 3,397 students, average ICSEA 1,038.
By sector: Government 5 · Independent 1
By type: Primary 3 · Combined 2 · Secondary 1
| Thornhill Park Primary School, Thornhill Park | Government | Primary | 1.8 km | 768 | 1,019 |
| Dharra School, Aintree | Government | Combined | 2.5 km | 111 | 1,029 |
| Yarrabing Secondary College, Aintree | Government | Secondary | 2.5 km | 398 | 1,018 |
| Aintree Primary School, Aintree | Government | Primary | 3.5 km | 1,323 | 1,058 |
| Muhammadiyah Australia College, Melton | Independent | Combined | 3.7 km | 182 | 1,052 |
| Rockbank Primary School, Rockbank | Government | Primary | 4.0 km | 615 | 1,027 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Grangefields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21087/grangefields/topic/education