38.5% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Jaffa · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Jaffa
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Educational attainment in Jaffa has seen a shift in trends over the last decade, though it remains a place where few residents finished high school. Only 38.5% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the national figure, with 38.5% of residents finishing school. This is much lower than in Queensland, where 57.1% finished their final year.
Highest year of school
View on map →Jaffa splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (45%) and Year 10 (41%), with Year 11 at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 12.5% of the population. This is well below the Queensland average of 21.9% and far below the national figure of 26.3%.
12.5% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Jaffa splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (50%) and Certificate III / IV (50%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Management & commerce at 43%, ahead of Food, hospitality & personal services (29%).
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 other schools with an average size of 32 students. This school also has a much lower advantage score than most areas.
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).
32
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
918
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Jaffa
1 school — 32 students, average ICSEA 918.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| El Arish State School, El Arish | Government | Primary | 2.8 km | 32 | 918 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Jaffa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31425/jaffa/topic/education