20.6% —
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
St Mary · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in St Mary
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Forty-one per cent of residents in St Mary left school after Year 10, marking it as an area with very low formal education levels. This is a place where few people have finished high school or gone on to university, leaving it far below state and national figures for qualifications.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 20.6% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1% and the Australian figure of 58.8%. This is among the lowest levels of school completion seen in similar areas.
Highest year of school
View on map →In St Mary, Year 10 is the majority at 56%; Year 12 is next at 28%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in the area hold a bachelor degree or higher. This 0.0% rate is far below the 21.9% seen across Queensland and the 26.3% national figure.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 St Mary, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Engineering & related at 32%, ahead of Health (21%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government primary school within 3 km, though it is much smaller than most others with an average of 45 students. The school also has an advantage score of 924, which is much 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).
45
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
924
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving St Mary
1 school — 45 students, average ICSEA 924.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Tiaro State School, Tiaro | Government | Primary | 10.4 km | 45 | 924 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in St Mary [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32646/st-mary/topic/education