51.5% ▲ +18.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.6%
- 2016: 44.1%
- 2021: 51.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Ringtail Creek · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Ringtail Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A significant gap exists between Ringtail Creek and the rest of the country in education levels. Only 16.4% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is well below both the state and national figures. This trend is mirrored in school completion, where far fewer residents finished Year 12 compared to the broader Australian population.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just over half of residents (51.5%) completed Year 12, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but still well below the Queensland average by 5.6 percentage points.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Ringtail Creek, Year 12 is the majority at 57%; Year 10 is next at 28%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 36.1% of adults. Overall, those with university degrees are much less common here than in the rest of Australia.
16.4% ▲ +91.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 16.4%
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 Ringtail Creek, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 49%, followed by Bachelor degree (21%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (19%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with society and culture being the most common at 17.2%, followed closely by engineering and related subjects at 16.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number than about 59% of similar areas.
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Lower than 99% 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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Ringtail Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32430/ringtail-creek/topic/education