49.4% ▲ +33.4%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 49.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Spring Creek · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Spring Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common achievement in Spring Creek, held by 37.4% of adults. While the area has a higher rate of Year 12 completion than many similar places, overall education levels remain well below the Queensland and Australian figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Fewer than half of residents have completed Year 12, at 49.4%. This is well below the national figure of 58.8% and the Queensland rate of 57.1%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Spring Creek, Year 12 is the majority at 52%; Year 10 is next at 31%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here than in the rest of the country. Only 16.1% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
16.1% ▲ +96.5%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 16.1%
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 Spring Creek, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Bachelor degree (34%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, with education (17.2%), engineering (16.2%), and health (14.1%) being the most frequent areas of study.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government secondary school within 3km of the area. This school has an average size of 310 students, though its advantage score is lower 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).
310
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
965
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Spring Creek
1 school — 310 students, average ICSEA 965.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Secondary 1
| Clifton State High School, Clifton | Government | Secondary | 9.8 km | 310 | 965 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Spring Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32622/spring-creek/topic/education