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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).
Bonshaw · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Bonshaw
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A score of 951 for school advantage is lower than most areas, highlighting a gap in educational resources for Bonshaw. This sparsely populated region relies on a single small primary school to serve its residents.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The most common highest year of school is Year 12 at 61%, ahead of Year 9 or below (28%).
Highest year of school
View on map →In Bonshaw, Year 12 is the majority at 69%; Year 9 or below is next at 31%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The most common highest qualification level is Graduate diploma / certificate at 20%, ahead of Bachelor degree (20%).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Bonshaw splits fairly evenly between Graduate diploma / certificate (50%) and Bachelor degree (50%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Management & commerce at 27%, ahead of Creative arts (27%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, which is among the smallest in the country with an average size of just 8 students. This is more schools within 3 km than about 59% of similar areas.
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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
951
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Bonshaw
1 school — 8 students, average ICSEA 951.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Bonshaw Public School, Bonshaw | Government | Primary | 6.6 km | 8 | 951 |
Sources
- Australian Schools List — Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2025 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Bonshaw [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30313/bonshaw/topic/education