33.4% ▲ +6.5%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Dongara · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Dongara
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents in Dongara have finished high school compared to the rest of the country. Only 33.4% of people here completed Year 12, which is a gap of 25 percentage points below the national figure. This trend of lower formal schooling is reflected in the low number of adults with university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Completing Year 12 is much less common here than in most areas, with only 33.4% of residents doing so. In contrast, 30.8% of people stopped at Year 10, and 12.4% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Dongara splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (37%) and Year 10 (34%), with Year 11 at 15%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare in Dongara, where just 7.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, far below the 26.3% national figure. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 43.4% of adults.
7.6% ▲ +1.6%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 7.6%
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 Dongara, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 57%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with qualifications, the most frequent fields of study are engineering and related subjects at 22.5%, followed by management and commerce at 13.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government school within 3km, which is a combined primary and secondary school. However, the average school advantage score of 945 is much lower than most similar areas.
4.48
Higher than 56% 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).
342
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
945
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Dongara
1 school — 342 students, average ICSEA 945.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Dongara District High School, Dongara | Government | Combined | 1.0 km | 342 | 945 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Dongara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50416/dongara/topic/education