23.3% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Tamrookum Creek · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Tamrookum Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Roughly 30% of people in Tamrookum Creek left school after Year 10, making it the most common final year of study. This reflects a local education profile that is far below the state and national figures for higher schooling and degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 23.3% of residents completed 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 Tamrookum Creek, the largest group is Year 10 at 47%, followed by Year 12 (37%) and Year 9 or below (16%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in the area hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the 21.9% seen in Queensland and the 26.3% national figure, placing the area among the lowest for university qualifications.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Tamrookum Creek, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Natural & physical sciences at 0%, ahead of Information technology (0%).
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 58 students. This school also has an advantage score of 950, which 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).
58
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
950
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Tamrookum Creek
1 school — 58 students, average ICSEA 950.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Rathdowney State School, Rathdowney | Government | Primary | 5.3 km | 58 | 950 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Tamrookum Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32734/tamrookum-creek/topic/education