51.4% ▲ +24.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 48.5%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Pomonal · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Pomonal
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Higher levels of university education than most similar areas define Pomonal, where 23% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. While these figures sit above nearby places, they remain well below the Victorian and national rates.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just over half of residents finished Year 12, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Pomonal, Year 12 is the majority at 54%; Year 11 is next at 24%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Certificates III or IV are the most common qualification at 35%, while 23% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure well below the Australian average.
23.0% ▲ +51.8%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 23.0%
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 Pomonal, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 40%, followed by Bachelor degree (28%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (22%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with health as the most common at 12.1%, followed by society and culture at 11.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Pomonal has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, consisting of a single small government primary school.
21.28
Higher than 89% 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).
22
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
977
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Pomonal
1 school — 22 students, average ICSEA 977.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Pomonal Primary School, Pomonal | Government | Primary | 7.3 km | 22 | 977 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Pomonal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22094/pomonal/topic/education