43.0% ▲ +29.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 43.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Biboohra · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Biboohra
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common achievement for adults in Biboohra, held by 39.1% of the population. This is a place where formal schooling and university degrees are much less common than in the rest of the state and country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 43% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. Roughly 27% of people finished school at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Biboohra, the largest group is Year 12 at 49%, followed by Year 10 (31%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Biboohra has a lower proportion of university-educated adults than most areas, with only 11.7% holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Queensland average of 21.9%.
11.7% ▲ +80.9%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 11.7%
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 Biboohra, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 55%; Bachelor degree is next at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with higher qualifications, the most common fields of study are Engineering (17.4%), Management and Commerce (12.7%), and Health (12%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government primary school in the area. While it is much smaller than most schools with an average size of 72 students, the number of schools per 1,000 children is much higher than in other similar areas.
9.71
Higher than 74% 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).
72
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
949
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Biboohra
1 school — 72 students, average ICSEA 949.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Biboohra State School, Biboohra | Government | Primary | 7.2 km | 72 | 949 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Biboohra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30244/biboohra/topic/education