42.5% ▲ +18.5%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Yeppoon · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Yeppoon
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 42.5% of adults in Yeppoon have finished Year 12, a figure far below the national average. This reflects a broader trend in the area, where residents are much less likely to hold university degrees than those in the rest of Queensland or Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion rates are far below the state and national figures, with 42.5% of people reaching this milestone. In contrast, 27.1% of residents finished Year 10, and 13.2% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Yeppoon, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 10 (30%) and Year 9 or below (15%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here, with only 13.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well below the Queensland figure, while Certificate III and IV qualifications are the most typical, held by 37.2% of residents.
13.4% ▲ +28.2%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Yeppoon, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Bachelor degree (21%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications for residents are in engineering and related fields at 16.4%, followed by management and commerce at 12.6% and health at 10.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Yeppoon has eight schools within 3 km, which is more than 80% of similar areas. These schools are larger than most, with an average size of 611 students, split evenly between government and Catholic providers.
3.76
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
8
Higher than 77% 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).
611
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
990
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Yeppoon
8 schools — 4,890 students, average ICSEA 990.
By sector: Government 4 · Catholic 4
By type: Primary 5 · Secondary 3
| Yeppoon State School, Yeppoon | Government | Primary | 0.3 km | 301 | 945 |
| St Ursula's College, Yeppoon | Catholic | Secondary | 1.0 km | 606 | 1,014 |
| Yeppoon State High School, Yeppoon | Government | Secondary | 1.1 km | 1,062 | 958 |
| St Brendan's College, Yeppoon | Catholic | Secondary | 1.4 km | 1,034 | 994 |
| St Benedict's Catholic Primary School, Yeppoon | Catholic | Primary | 3.4 km | 370 | 1,052 |
| Taranganba State School, Taranganba | Government | Primary | 3.8 km | 604 | 966 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Yeppoon | Catholic | Primary | 4.8 km | 552 | 1,025 |
| Farnborough State School, Farnborough | Government | Primary | 5.3 km | 361 | 993 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Yeppoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33219/yeppoon/topic/education