35.7% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wool Wool · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wool Wool
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More than a third of adults in Wool Wool have finished Year 12, but this is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia. The area is mostly non-residential and sparsely populated, with very low levels of higher education compared to most other places.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 35.7% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Victorian rate of 61.8%. About 16.7% of people left school in Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wool Wool, the largest group is Year 12 at 41%, followed by Year 10 (22%) and Year 11 (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is uncommon here, with only 6.8% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the national figure of 26.3%, though 37.5% of qualified adults hold an advanced diploma or diploma.
6.8% —
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 Wool Wool, Advanced diploma / diploma is the majority at 53%; Certificate III / IV is next at 29%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with agriculture and environment, management and commerce, and society and culture each making up 16.7% of the total.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area is served by one government primary school, which is much smaller than most other schools with an average size of 78 students.
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).
78
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
968
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wool Wool
1 school — 78 students, average ICSEA 968.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Alvie Primary School, Alvie | Government | Primary | 8.4 km | 78 | 968 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wool Wool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22847/wool-wool/topic/education