39.2% ▲ +24.6%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Manjimup · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Manjimup
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common achievement in Manjimup, held by 41.2% of adults. The town has a lower rate of formal schooling and university degrees than both the state and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 39.2% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. About 27.9% of people in the area finished Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Manjimup, the largest group is Year 12 at 42%, followed by Year 10 (30%) and Year 11 (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by just 8.7% of adults, a figure far below the Western Australian average of 23.8%.
8.7% ▲ +27.9%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Manjimup, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are most often in engineering and related fields at 15.6%, followed by management and commerce at 11.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Manjimup has 6.33 schools per 1,000 children, which is higher than most similar areas. There are five schools within 3km, and 80% of these are government schools.
6.33
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
5
Higher than 73% 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).
284
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
989
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Manjimup
5 schools — 1,420 students, average ICSEA 989.
By sector: Government 4 · Catholic 1
By type: Primary 2 · Combined 2 · Secondary 1
| East Manjimup Primary School, Manjimup | Government | Primary | 0.5 km | 253 | 978 |
| Kearnan College, Manjimup | Catholic | Combined | 0.8 km | 338 | 1,017 |
| Manjimup Primary School, Manjimup | Government | Primary | 1.7 km | 229 | 978 |
| Manjimup Education Support Centre, Manjimup | Government | Combined | 1.7 km | 27 | 945 |
| Manjimup Senior High School, Manjimup | Government | Secondary | 1.9 km | 573 | 983 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Manjimup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50891/manjimup/topic/education