36.4% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Teal Point · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 25 percentage points separates the school completion rate in Teal Point from the Victorian average. Only 36.4% of people here finished Year 12, and the area has a much lower share of university-qualified adults than most other parts of the country.
Highest year of school completed.
Just 36.4% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. The rest of the population mostly finished Year 10 or below.
36.4% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Teal Point splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (42%) and Year 10 (42%), with Year 11 at 8%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 6.8% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the national average of 26.3%. Most qualified residents hold a Certificate III or IV.
6.8% —
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Teal Point, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 67%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 21%.
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread evenly across engineering, agriculture, education, and management, with health being the next most common field at 16.7%.
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller than about 59% of similar areas.
0
Lower than 99% 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Teal Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22475/teal-point/topic/education