41.4% ▲ +36.1%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Goombungee · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Goombungee
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Around the middle of similar areas for schooling and school advantage, Goombungee is a place where a typical resident is less likely to hold a university degree. Only 7.9% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Fewer people here finished high school compared to the wider region, with 41.4% completing Year 12. This is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Goombungee, the largest group is Year 12 at 45%, followed by Year 10 (34%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Trade and vocational certificates are common, with 48.6% of residents holding a Certificate III or IV. This helps explain why university qualifications are much lower than most areas at 7.9%.
7.9% ▲ +21.3%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 Goombungee, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 60%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 16%.
Field of study
What people studied.
People who have a qualification most often studied engineering and related fields, which accounts for 19.4% of degrees and certificates.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school within 3km. These schools are much smaller than most areas, with an average size of 80 students.
4.81
Higher than 58% 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).
80
Lower than 78% 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 Goombungee
1 school — 80 students, average ICSEA 992.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Goombungee State School, Goombungee | Government | Primary | 0.7 km | 80 | 992 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Goombungee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31195/goombungee/topic/education