46.8% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.9%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wargan · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wargan
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
No adults in Wargan hold a bachelor's degree or higher, a figure far below the national average. This reflects a broader trend in the area where fewer than half of residents finished Year 12. Most people here hold trade certificates or diplomas instead of university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 46.8% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the 61.8% seen across Victoria. About 27.7% of the population left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wargan, the largest group is Year 12 at 46%, followed by Year 9 or below (27%) and Year 10 (17%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Qualifications are mostly practical, with 39.1% of adults holding a Certificate III or IV and 13% having a diploma. This explains why university degrees are nonexistent here, sitting 26 points below the Australian figure.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Wargan, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 75%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 25%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Fields of study are heavily weighted toward the land, with 30.4% of qualifications in agriculture and environment. Engineering and related fields make up another 17.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, which is smaller than most others with an average size of 110 students. This school has one of the lowest advantage scores for its level.
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).
110
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
881
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wargan
1 school — 110 students, average ICSEA 881.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Wentworth Public School, Wentworth | Government | Primary | 11.1 km | 110 | 881 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wargan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22691/wargan/topic/education