36.7% ▼ -0.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Longwood · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Longwood
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school in Longwood than in the rest of the state. Only 36.7% of residents completed Year 12, which is a gap of 25 points compared to Victoria. This trend of lower formal schooling extends to higher education, where university degrees are much less common than the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 36.7% of people here finished Year 12, a result far below the national figure of 58.8%. About 24.3% of residents stopped at Year 10, while 12.8% left school at Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Longwood, the largest group is Year 12 at 38%, followed by Year 10 (25%) and Year 11 (23%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 12.3% of the population, which is far below the 29.2% seen across Victoria. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 31.3% of residents.
12.3% ▼ -3.4%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 12.3%
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 Longwood, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 39%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (30%) and Bachelor degree (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are management and commerce at 15.3%, followed by engineering, health, and education, which each account for 11.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Longwood has a very high number of schools per child, though the typical school is much smaller than in other areas. The local school is a government primary school with a high advantage score of 1,044.
27.03
Higher than 92% 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).
53
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,044
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Longwood
1 school — 53 students, average ICSEA 1,044.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Longwood Primary School, Longwood | Government | Primary | 3.2 km | 53 | 1,044 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Longwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21540/longwood/topic/education