50.9% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.7%
- 2016: 49.0%
- 2021: 50.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Steels Creek · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Steels Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
About 31.4% of adults in Steels Creek hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure well above the national average. This is a highly qualified area compared to most similar places, though it sees a much lower proportion of people completing Year 12 than the rest of the state.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just over half of residents, 50.9%, have completed Year 12. This is higher than most similar areas, but remains far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Steels Creek, Year 12 is the majority at 57%; Year 10 is next at 19%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by 31.4% of adults, which is much higher than most areas. This includes 29.7% with a bachelor degree and 8.9% with a postgraduate qualification.
31.4% ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Steels Creek splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (35%) and Certificate III / IV (32%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 13%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are management and commerce at 17.1%, followed by engineering and related fields at 15.8%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government primary school in the area, which is much smaller than most schools with an average size of 70 students. The average school advantage score of 1,007 is higher than most 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).
70
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,007
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Steels Creek
1 school — 70 students, average ICSEA 1,007.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Kinglake Primary School, Kinglake | Government | Primary | 7.0 km | 70 | 1,007 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Steels Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22355/steels-creek/topic/education