21.6% —
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Pukatja · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Pukatja
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents have completed high school or university in Pukatja compared to most other areas. Only 21.6% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This gap in schooling is reflected in the low number of adults with university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 21.6% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the South Australian rate of 54.6%. Many residents left school earlier, with 25.5% reaching Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →Pukatja splits fairly evenly between Year 9 or below (30%) and Year 10 (27%), with Year 12 at 25%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 7.7% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common high-level qualification is a bachelor degree, held by 14.7% of residents.
7.7% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 7.7%
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 Pukatja, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 32%, followed by Certificate III / IV (25%) and Certificate I / II (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Education is the most common field of qualification at 18.6%, followed by society and culture at 7.8%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Pukatja has a higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas. The local government school is a combined primary and secondary school with a typical size of 148 students.
7.75
Higher than 70% 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).
148
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
Schools serving Pukatja
1 school — 148 students.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Ernabella Anangu School, Ghan | Government | Combined | 0.1 km | 148 | — |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Pukatja [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41222/pukatja/topic/education