71.8% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 66.2%
- 2021: 71.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Dayton · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Dayton
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Nearly 72% of Dayton residents have completed Year 12, a figure far above the national average. This high level of schooling is mirrored in the local workforce, where the proportion of adults with a university degree is much higher than in most similar areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is very high at 71.8%, which is 13 points higher than the Australian figure. Only 5% of the population left school in Year 9 or before.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Dayton, Year 12 is the majority at 75%; Year 10 is next at 13%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 27.8% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is well above the Western Australian average. The most common qualifications are bachelor degrees at 29% and Certificate III or IV at 28.2%.
27.8% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Dayton splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (33%) and Certificate III / IV (32%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are management and commerce at 21.6%, followed by engineering and related fields at 17.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Local schools are larger and have higher advantage scores than most areas, though there are far fewer schools per 1,000 children. Most are government primary schools.
1.39
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
10
Higher than 79% 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).
519
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,008
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Dayton
10 schools — 5,191 students, average ICSEA 1,008.
By sector: Government 8 · Catholic 2
By type: Primary 9 · Secondary 1
| Dayton Primary School, Dayton | Government | Primary | 0.7 km | 404 | 1,041 |
| Emmaus Catholic Primary School, Dayton | Catholic | Primary | 0.8 km | 207 | 1,054 |
| Caversham Primary School, West Swan | Government | Primary | 1.0 km | 404 | 1,035 |
| Caversham Valley Primary School, Caversham | Government | Primary | 1.6 km | 679 | 1,035 |
| East Beechboro Primary School, Beechboro | Government | Primary | 3.0 km | 362 | 969 |
| Maarakool Primary School, Brabham | Government | Primary | 3.4 km | 256 | 1,035 |
| Brabham Primary School, Brabham | Government | Primary | 3.6 km | 978 | 1,032 |
| Lockridge Primary School, Lockridge | Government | Primary | 3.8 km | 282 | 851 |
| Beechboro Primary School, Beechboro | Government | Primary | 3.9 km | 273 | 813 |
| La Salle College, Middle Swan | Catholic | Secondary | 4.0 km | 1,346 | 1,028 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Dayton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50397/dayton/topic/education