43.3% ▲ +25.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Freestone · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Freestone
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people in Freestone have completed Year 12 compared to the rest of the country, with only 43.3% reaching this milestone. This trend carries through to higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 43.3%, which is far below both the Queensland figure of 57.1% and the national average of 58.8%. About 40.2% of residents instead stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Freestone splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (43%) and Year 10 (40%), with Year 9 or below at 10%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University qualifications are rare here, with only 8.7% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Australian average of 26.3%, while over half the area's qualifications are at Certificate III or IV level.
8.7% ▼ -4.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Freestone, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 67%; Bachelor degree is next at 13%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in Freestone are most often trained in engineering and related fields at 14.8%, followed by management and commerce at 12%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, which is much smaller than most others with an average size of 24 students. While the school is small, the number of schools per 1,000 children is among the highest at this level.
28.57
Higher than 93% 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).
24
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
979
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Freestone
1 school — 24 students, average ICSEA 979.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Freestone State School, Freestone | Government | Primary | 0.8 km | 24 | 979 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Freestone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31084/freestone/topic/education