44.0% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 58.3%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wamuran Basin · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wamuran Basin
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More people here hold university degrees than in most similar areas, despite fewer residents finishing high school. Wamuran Basin has a mixed educational profile, where 20.8% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, though only 44% of the population finished Year 12.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
High school completion is far below the national figure, with only 44% of people finishing Year 12 compared to 58.8% across Australia.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wamuran Basin, Year 12 is the majority at 63%; Year 10 is next at 21%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 20.8% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the Australian figure of 26.3%.
20.8% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 20.8%
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 Wamuran Basin, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 39%, followed by Bachelor degree (33%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with Health, Education, and Management and Commerce each accounting for 11.4% of degrees.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area is served by one government primary school, which is larger than those in about 59% of similar 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).
323
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
979
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wamuran Basin
1 school — 323 students, average ICSEA 979.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Wamuran State School, Wamuran | Government | Primary | 3.8 km | 323 | 979 |
Sources
More for Wamuran Basin
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wamuran Basin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32978/wamuran-basin/topic/education