33.9% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 41.2%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mount Surround · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Mount Surround
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school in Mount Surround compared to the rest of the country. Only 33.9% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This gap extends to higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
High school completion is far below the state and national figures, with only 33.9% of people finishing Year 12. About 30.4% of residents stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Mount Surround splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (35%) and Year 10 (31%), with Year 11 at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 7.8% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Instead, half of all qualifications are Certificate III or IV levels.
7.8% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 7.8%
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 Surround, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 61%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, 42.6% studied engineering and related fields, while 13.2% studied management and commerce.
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 60 students. Its average school advantage score is also much lower than in most similar 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).
60
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
925
Lower than 84% 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 Surround
1 school — 60 students, average ICSEA 925.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Giru State School, Giru | Government | Primary | 7.0 km | 60 | 925 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mount Surround [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32027/mount-surround/topic/education