70.8% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.5%
- 2016: 69.0%
- 2021: 70.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wights Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wights Mountain
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Nearly 71% of people in Wights Mountain have completed Year 12, a figure far above the national average. This is a highly educated area where degrees and high school completion rates are much higher than in most other parts of the country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is among the highest for similar areas, at 70.8%. This is far above the Queensland figure of 57.1% and the Australian average of 58.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wights Mountain, Year 12 is the majority at 74%; Year 10 is next at 18%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 34.9% of the population, which is well above the Australian figure of 26.3%. This is much higher than most areas, with 30.5% holding a bachelor degree.
34.9% ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 34.9%
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 Wights Mountain, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 34%, followed by Certificate III / IV (24%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (20%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in management and commerce at 19.6%, followed by engineering and related fields at 17.8%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Local schools are much larger than most areas, with an average size of 544 students. The area has a high school advantage score of 1,101, which is among the highest at this level.
7.81
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
2
Higher than 62% 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).
544
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,101
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wights Mountain
2 schools — 1,087 students, average ICSEA 1,101.
By sector: Independent 1 · Government 1
By type: Combined 1 · Primary 1
| Samford Valley Steiner School, Wights Mountain | Independent | Combined | 1.2 km | 500 | 1,103 |
| Samford State School, Samford Village | Government | Primary | 4.0 km | 587 | 1,100 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wights Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33073/wights-mountain/topic/education