37.9% ▼ -1.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Calingiri · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Calingiri
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 21 percentage points separates Calingiri from the national figure for Year 12 completion. The area has a much lower rate of higher education than most similar places, with only 4.6% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.9% of people have finished Year 12, which is far below the Western Australian rate of 58.0%. This is lower than most areas, with an equal number of residents having Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →Calingiri splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (40%) and Year 10 (40%), with Year 11 at 12%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The share of adults with a university degree is far below the national figure, while Certificate III or IV qualifications are common, held by 45.1% of the community.
4.6% ▼ -58.9%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 4.6%
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 Calingiri, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 65%; Bachelor degree is next at 14%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are Engineering at 19.7% and Management and Commerce at 18.3%, followed by Education at 16.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government primary school in the area, which is much smaller than most other schools with an average size of 24 students. This gives Calingiri a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most similar areas.
18.52
Higher than 87% 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).
24
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
928
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Calingiri
1 school — 24 students, average ICSEA 928.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Calingiri Primary School, Calingiri | Government | Primary | 4.2 km | 24 | 928 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Calingiri [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50234/calingiri/topic/education