20.4% —
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wheatvale · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wheatvale
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 38 percentage points separates Wheatvale from the national average in Year 12 completions. This sparsely populated area has very low rates of formal schooling and higher education compared to the rest of the state and country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 20.4% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. The most common highest year of school completed here is Year 10, at 31.5%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wheatvale, the largest group is Year 10 at 49%, followed by Year 12 (31%) and Year 9 or below (11%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Just 5.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a result far below the Australian average of 26.3%. Instead, Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification, held by 34.5% of residents.
5.6% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Wheatvale, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 77%; Bachelor degree is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are society and culture at 13.8%, followed by agriculture and environment, health, and education, which each sit at 10.3%.
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 schools with an average size of 37 students. This school has an advantage score of 958, 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).
37
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
958
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wheatvale
1 school — 37 students, average ICSEA 958.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Wheatvale State School, Wheatvale | Government | Primary | 1.1 km | 37 | 958 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wheatvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33057/wheatvale/topic/education