33.6% ▲ +55.3%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Hopetoun · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Hopetoun
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents in Hopetoun finished high school compared to the rest of the state, with only 33.6% completing Year 12. This gap is seen in higher education too, where the proportion of adults with a university degree is far below the national figure. The community relies more heavily on trade and vocational certificates.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the Victoria figure of 61.8% and the national average of 58.8%. Nearly a quarter of residents left school in Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Hopetoun, the largest group is Year 12 at 36%, followed by Year 9 or below (25%) and Year 10 (21%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 9.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the state and national figures. Instead, Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification, held by 36.7% of people.
9.6% ▲ +19.1%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Hopetoun, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 46%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (22%) and Bachelor degree (22%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, led by education at 14.7% and health at 13.5%. Agriculture and environment make up 11.2% of the local qualifications.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Hopetoun has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the average school size is much smaller at 55 students. Local schooling is split evenly between government and Catholic providers.
21.74
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
2
Higher than 62% 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).
55
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
963
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Hopetoun
2 schools — 110 students, average ICSEA 963.
By sector: Catholic 1 · Government 1
By type: Primary 1 · Combined 1
| St Joseph's School, Hopetoun | Catholic | Primary | 2.9 km | 37 | 994 |
| Hopetoun P-12 College, Hopetoun | Government | Combined | 4.1 km | 73 | 948 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21201/hopetoun/topic/education