34.3% ▲ +34.9%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Taroom · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Taroom
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 25 percentage points separates Taroom from the national average in Year 12 completion. Only 34.3% of residents here finished high school, which is far below both the state and Australian figures. This trend carries through to higher education, where the number of adults with university degrees is also much lower than in most areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 34.3% of residents completed Year 12, a figure far below the Queensland average of 57.1%. Many others left school earlier, with 31.9% reaching Year 10 and 18.7% finishing at Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →Taroom splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (38%) and Year 10 (35%), with Year 9 or below at 21%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 9.6% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Trade qualifications are more common, with 40.6% of residents holding a Certificate III or IV.
9.6% ▲ +48.8%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Taroom, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 25%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in this area are most often trained in engineering and related fields at 16.3%, followed by health at 12.8% and education at 9.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has more schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the typical school size of 153 students is lower than average. All schooling is provided by the government sector through combined schools.
5.18
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
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).
153
Lower than 68% 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 Taroom
1 school — 153 students, average ICSEA 965.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Taroom State School, Taroom | Government | Combined | 8.9 km | 153 | 965 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Taroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32755/taroom/topic/education