37.9% ▲ +2.2%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Lock · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Lock
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 21 percentage points separates Lock from the national figure for Year 12 completion. This area has a much lower proportion of residents with higher education degrees than most other regions. The typical education profile here is heavily weighted toward trade certificates rather than university qualifications.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.9% of residents have finished Year 12, which is far below the South Australian figure of 54.6%. About 21.6% of the population had Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Lock, the largest group is Year 12 at 41%, followed by Year 10 (24%) and Year 11 (22%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Just 5.1% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the national average of 26.3%. Instead, 40.4% of those with qualifications hold a Certificate III or IV.
5.1% ▼ -51.2%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 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 Lock, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 27%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Agricultural and environmental studies are the most common fields of qualification at 19.1%. Other notable areas of study include society and culture at 11.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Lock has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the typical school size is much smaller at 43 students. The local school is a government combined facility.
16.95
Higher than 86% 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).
43
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
960
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Lock
1 school — 43 students, average ICSEA 960.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Lock Area School, Lock | Government | Combined | 3.1 km | 43 | 960 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Lock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40774/lock/topic/education