39.1% ▲ +24.5%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Cookernup · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Cookernup
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents in Cookernup have completed Year 12 compared to the national average. Only 39.1% of people finished their final year of school, which is 20 percentage points lower than the Australian figure. This gap extends to higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 39.1% of residents completed Year 12, a figure far below the Western Australian average of 58.0%. Roughly 32.8% of the population left school after Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Cookernup, the largest group is Year 12 at 42%, followed by Year 10 (35%) and Year 11 (13%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up just 6.8% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Instead, nearly half of all qualified residents hold a Certificate III or IV.
6.8% ▲ +24.3%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 Cookernup, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 60%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications held by residents are in Engineering and related fields at 21.2%, followed by Management and commerce at 11.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government primary school within 3 km of the area, though it is much smaller than those in most other areas with an average size of 48 students.
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).
48
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
875
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Cookernup
1 school — 48 students, average ICSEA 875.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Yarloop Primary School, Yarloop | Government | Primary | 6.3 km | 48 | 875 |
Sources
More for Cookernup
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Cookernup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50322/cookernup/topic/education