29.7% ▲ +11.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Maidenwell · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Maidenwell
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 29.7% of adults in Maidenwell have completed Year 12, a figure far below the national average. This creates a local profile where high school completion and university degrees are much less common than in most other Australian areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 10 is the most common final school year here, reached by 36.2% of people. The proportion who finished Year 12 is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Maidenwell, the largest group is Year 10 at 42%, followed by Year 12 (35%) and Year 9 or below (13%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 9.3% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national average of 26.3%. Instead, Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common, held by 35.5% of residents.
9.3% ▲ +25.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Maidenwell, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in this area are spread across various fields, with Education being the most common at 12.7%, followed by Engineering and related fields at 11.8%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school, though it is among the smallest of its kind with an average size of just 10 students.
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).
10
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
885
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Maidenwell
1 school — 10 students, average ICSEA 885.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Tanduringie State School, Pimpimbudgee | Government | Primary | 6.1 km | 10 | 885 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Maidenwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31734/maidenwell/topic/education