39.6% ▲ +19.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 39.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wandoan · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wandoan
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school in Wandoan compared to the rest of the country, with only 39.6% completing Year 12. This gap extends to higher education, where the proportion of adults with a university degree is much lower than both the state and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 39.6% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland rate of 57.1% and the Australian figure of 58.8%. About 22.5% of people here had Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wandoan, Year 12 is the majority at 52%; Year 10 is next at 30%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The 11.5% of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is far below the national average. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 22.7% of the population.
11.5% ▲ +94.1%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 11.5%
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 Wandoan, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 42%, followed by Bachelor degree (30%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (19%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are Engineering and related subjects at 14.9%, followed by Management and Commerce at 8.7% and Education at 8.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has more schools per 1,000 children than most similar areas, though the average school size of 124 is lower. All local schools are government-run combined schools.
8.00
Higher than 71% 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).
124
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
915
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wandoan
1 school — 124 students, average ICSEA 915.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Wandoan State School P-10, Wandoan | Government | Combined | 6.6 km | 124 | 915 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wandoan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32980/wandoan/topic/education