21.7% ▲ +18.3%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wowan · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wowan
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 21.7% of people in Wowan have finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure. This highlights a community where most adults left school early and few have gone on to university study.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is among the lowest for similar areas, sitting 37 points below the Australian average. More than half of the population finished school in Year 10 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wowan, the largest group is Year 10 at 37%, followed by Year 9 or below (32%) and Year 12 (26%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare here, with only 5.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Queensland figure of 21.9%.
5.4% ▲ +16.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Wowan splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (38%) and Bachelor degree (33%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 17%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Of those with qualifications, the most common fields are management and commerce at 17.2%, followed by education at 15.6%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a high number of schools per child, though the only primary school is much smaller than most others with an average size of 38 students.
41.67
Higher than 99% 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).
38
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
969
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wowan
1 school — 38 students, average ICSEA 969.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Wowan State School, Wowan | Government | Primary | 5.4 km | 38 | 969 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33167/wowan/topic/education