40.5% ▲ +6.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.1%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Noorat · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Noorat
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school in Noorat compared to the rest of the state. Only 40.5% of residents completed Year 12, which is 21 percentage points lower than the Victorian average. This gap is mirrored in higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 40.5%, a rate far below both Victoria and Australia. About 20.8% of the community finished Year 11, while 16.6% stopped at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Noorat, the largest group is Year 12 at 45%, followed by Year 11 (23%) and Year 10 (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 14.7% of the population, which is far below the national figure. The most common high-level qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 36.5% of residents.
14.7% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 14.7%
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 Noorat, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 47%, followed by Bachelor degree (22%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Noorat are spread across several areas, with Agriculture and environment being the most common at 14.2%. Education follows at 12.8%, while Engineering and Health each account for 11.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most similar places, though the typical school size is much smaller at just 25 students. The only school in the area is a government primary school.
17.54
Higher than 86% 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).
25
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
968
Lower 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 Noorat
1 school — 25 students, average ICSEA 968.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Noorat Primary School, Noorat | Government | Primary | 0.5 km | 25 | 968 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Noorat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21955/noorat/topic/education