55.8% ▲ +5.1%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.1%
- 2016: 53.4%
- 2021: 55.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Harcourt North · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Harcourt North
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Over a third of adults in Harcourt North hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure well above the national average. This creates a profile where high-level tertiary qualifications are common, even though school completion rates for Year 12 are lower than the state and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 55.8%, which is well below the 61.8% seen across Victoria. While this is higher than most similar areas, it remains 3 percentage points lower than the Australian average.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Harcourt North, Year 12 is the majority at 62%; Year 10 is next at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Degrees are common here, with 34.1% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well above the national figure of 26.3%, and significantly higher than most other areas.
34.1% ▲ +30.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 34.1%
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 Harcourt North, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 32%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (22%) and Certificate III / IV (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are Health at 18.1% and Engineering and related fields at 13.5%, followed by Management and commerce at 10.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, which is much smaller than those in most other areas with a typical size of 73 students. This school has an advantage score of 1,015, which is higher than most areas.
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).
73
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,015
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Harcourt North
1 school — 73 students, average ICSEA 1,015.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Harcourt Valley Primary School, Harcourt | Government | Primary | 5.6 km | 73 | 1,015 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Harcourt North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21138/harcourt-north/topic/education