44.8% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 44.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Whetstone · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Whetstone
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents in Whetstone have completed high school or university compared to most other areas. Only 44.8% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This reflects a community where formal higher education is much less common than in the rest of the state.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
High school completion is low here, with only 44.8% of people finishing Year 12. This is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%, while 25.9% of residents stopped at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Whetstone, Year 12 is the majority at 54%; Year 10 is next at 31%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare in Whetstone, where only 5.1% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Australian average of 26.3%, with Certificate III or IV being the most common qualification at 31.8%.
5.1% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Whetstone, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Bachelor degree is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread evenly across a few fields, with Education, Management and commerce, and Food, hospitality and personal services each accounting for 18.2% 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 among the smallest of its kind with an average size of 19 students.
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).
19
Lower than 96% 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 Whetstone
1 school — 19 students, average ICSEA 861.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Yelarbon State School, Yelarbon | Government | Primary | 17.4 km | 19 | 861 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Whetstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33058/whetstone/topic/education