38.7% ▲ +31.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Rainbow · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Rainbow
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A far lower number of residents in Rainbow have finished Year 12 compared to the rest of the country. Only 38.7% of people here completed their final year of school, which is 20 percentage points below the national figure. This trend of lower formal schooling extends to higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in Victoria.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 38.7% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the Victoria figure of 61.8%. Other common outcomes include 18% who finished Year 10 and 17.3% who reached Year 11.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Rainbow, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (20%) and Year 11 (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 13.1% of the population, far below the 26.3% seen across Australia. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 37.4% of residents.
13.1% ▲ +42.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 13.1%
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 Rainbow, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 49%, followed by Bachelor degree (24%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Health is the most common field of qualification at 16.7%, followed by society and culture at 11.6% and engineering at 11.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Rainbow has 10.99 schools per 1,000 children, which is much higher than most similar areas. The local school is a government-run combined facility with a typical size of 109 students.
10.99
Higher than 76% 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).
109
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
980
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Rainbow
1 school — 109 students, average ICSEA 980.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Rainbow P-12 College, Rainbow | Government | Combined | 3.8 km | 109 | 980 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Rainbow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22137/rainbow/topic/education