44.4% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 45.2%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Bookpurnong · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Bookpurnong
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school in Bookpurnong than the national average. Only 44.4% of residents completed Year 12, which is 14 percentage points lower than across Australia. This trend carries through to higher education, where university degrees are also less common than in the state or nation.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The typical resident's school journey ended earlier than in most of Australia, with 29.9% of people reaching Year 11 and 16.2% reaching Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Bookpurnong, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 11 (32%) and Year 10 (17%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher qualifications are well below the state figure, as only 16.5% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 37.5% of residents.
16.5% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 16.5%
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 Bookpurnong, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 46%, followed by Bachelor degree (25%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (20%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in this area are spread across several fields, with Engineering and Health both accounting for 16.7% of degrees, followed by Management and Commerce at 13.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area is served by one government primary school, which is much smaller than those in most other areas with a typical size of 56 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).
56
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
889
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Bookpurnong
1 school — 56 students, average ICSEA 889.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Loxton North School, Loxton North | Government | Primary | 6.2 km | 56 | 889 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Bookpurnong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40136/bookpurnong/topic/education