17.5% ▲ +29.1%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Yalata · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Yalata
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 41 percentage points separates the number of people who finished high school in Yalata from the national figure. Only 17.5% of residents completed Year 12, which is among the lowest rates for any similar area. This trend extends to higher education, where very few adults hold university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the South Australian rate of 54.6%. The most common highest level of schooling is Year 9 or below, which 21.5% of the population reached.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Yalata, the largest group is Year 9 or below at 37%, followed by Year 12 (30%) and Year 10 (17%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Just 2.1% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the national average of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 12.5% of people.
2.1% ▼ -64.4%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Yalata, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 65%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields of study are Education at 6.7% and Society and Culture at 5.8%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Yalata has 13.89 schools per 1,000 children, which is much higher than most areas. All schools here are government-run combined institutions with a typical size of 50 students.
13.89
Higher than 81% 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).
50
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
Schools serving Yalata
1 school — 50 students.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Yalata Anangu School, Yalata | Government | Combined | 18.3 km | 50 | — |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Yalata [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41669/yalata/topic/education