43.6% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Rubicon · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Rubicon
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A far lower share of people in Rubicon have finished high school compared to the rest of the state. Only 43.6% of residents completed Year 12, and just over 10% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is a significant gap compared to both Victoria and the national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About 43.6% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the Victorian rate of 61.8%. Roughly a third of residents stopped at Year 10, while 15.4% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Rubicon, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (15%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 10.3% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 45.8% of residents.
10.3% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 10.3%
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 Rubicon, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 73%; Bachelor degree is next at 27%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are engineering and related subjects at 33.3%, followed by society and culture and food, hospitality and personal services, both at 20.8%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government secondary school within 3 km, which is more than about 59% of similar areas.
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).
Schools serving Rubicon
1 school.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Secondary 1
| Rubicon Outdoor School, Thornton | Government | Secondary | 10.3 km | — | — |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Rubicon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22209/rubicon/topic/education