39.0% ▼ -3.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mount Forbes · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Mount Forbes
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 20 percentage points separates Mount Forbes from the national average in Year 12 completion. This sparsely populated area has much lower levels of formal schooling and university degrees than typical Australian communities.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 39% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. About 32.7% of people listed Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Mount Forbes, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (37%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare here, with just 7.5% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Queensland figure of 21.9%, though nearly half of qualified adults hold a Certificate III or IV.
7.5% ▲ +5.7%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 7.5%
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 Mount Forbes, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 62%; Bachelor degree is next at 17%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications held by residents are in engineering and related fields at 22.6%, followed by management and commerce at 13.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government primary school within 3km, though it is very small with a typical size of just 17 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).
17
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
990
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Mount Forbes
1 school — 17 students, average ICSEA 990.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Mutdapilly State School, Mutdapilly | Government | Primary | 5.7 km | 17 | 990 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mount Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31961/mount-forbes/topic/education