26.9% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Tingoora · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Tingoora
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than 27% of people in Tingoora have finished Year 12, a figure far below the national average. This suggests an area where many residents entered the workforce early or transitioned into vocational training rather than pursuing long-term academic study.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 26.9% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. Most people here left school after Year 10, with 42.7% of the population reaching that level.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Tingoora, the largest group is Year 10 at 46%, followed by Year 12 (29%) and Year 9 or below (17%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University qualifications are less common here, with just 10.7% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the national figure of 26.3%, while Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification at 37.8%.
10.7% ▲ +30.9%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 10.7%
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 Tingoora, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Bachelor degree is next at 25%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are society and culture at 15%, followed by engineering and related fields at 11.8% and education at 11%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Tingoora has a high number of schools per 1,000 children, though the local primary school is very small with a typical size of just 21 students.
37.04
Higher than 98% 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).
21
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
861
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Tingoora
1 school — 21 students, average ICSEA 861.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Tingoora State School, Tingoora | Government | Primary | 0.8 km | 21 | 861 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Tingoora [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32832/tingoora/topic/education