31.3% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Poonindie · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Poonindie
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Few residents in Poonindie have finished high school, with only 31.3% completing Year 12. This is far below the national figure of 58.8%. Most people here have a practical training background rather than university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 31.3% of people finished Year 12, which is far below both the state and national figures. Many residents left school earlier, with 29.2% reaching Year 11 and 23.6% reaching Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Poonindie splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (33%) and Year 11 (31%), with Year 10 at 25%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by just 10.4% of adults, far below the 26.3% seen across Australia. Instead, over half of qualified adults hold a Certificate III or IV.
10.4% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 10.4%
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 Poonindie, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 64%; Bachelor degree is next at 9%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications here are spread across several fields, with engineering and related studies being the most common at 18.6%, followed by society and culture at 15.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Poonindie has a higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the local primary school is smaller than typical schools. The only school in the area is government-run.
17.54
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).
131
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
984
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Poonindie
1 school — 131 students, average ICSEA 984.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Poonindie Community Learning Centre, Poonindie | Government | Primary | 1.3 km | 131 | 984 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Poonindie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41184/poonindie/topic/education