26.8% ▼ -1.6%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Leeman · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Leeman
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Very few residents in Leeman have finished high school or gone on to university, which shapes the local skills base. Only 26.8% of people completed Year 12, a figure far below the national average.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Most people here left school before the end of Year 12, with 38.1% finishing at Year 10. This is among the lowest levels of school completion compared to similar areas.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Leeman, the largest group is Year 10 at 45%, followed by Year 12 (31%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is rare here, as only 2.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. Instead, nearly half of the community (47.2%) hold a Certificate III or IV.
2.6% ▲ —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Leeman, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 69%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 15%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in this area are most common in engineering and related fields (32.7%), followed by society and culture at 10.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area is served by a single government primary school. This school is much smaller than those in most other areas, with a typical size of just 25 students.
22.73
Higher than 90% 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).
25
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
923
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Leeman
1 school — 25 students, average ICSEA 923.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Leeman Primary School, Leeman | Government | Primary | 6.8 km | 25 | 923 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Leeman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50841/leeman/topic/education