35.2% ▲ +42.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wycheproof · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wycheproof
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents in Wycheproof have completed high school compared to the rest of the state. Only 35.2% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. This gap extends to higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just over a third of people finished Year 12, a result far below the national average. About 20.2% of residents stopped at Year 10, while 13.8% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wycheproof, the largest group is Year 12 at 39%, followed by Year 10 (23%) and Year 11 (22%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 11.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the Victorian figure. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 33.2% of residents.
11.6% ▲ +66.4%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 11.6%
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 Wycheproof, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 51%; Bachelor degree is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are diverse, with the largest groups focusing on engineering and related fields at 12.8% and management and commerce at 10.6%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Wycheproof has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the average school size is much smaller at 90 students. The local school is a government combined facility.
12.05
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
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).
90
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
992
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wycheproof
1 school — 90 students, average ICSEA 992.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Wycheproof P-12 College, Wycheproof | Government | Combined | 1.0 km | 90 | 992 |
Sources
More for Wycheproof
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wycheproof [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22877/wycheproof/topic/education