36.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
McBeath · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in McBeath
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 23 percentage points separates McBeath from the national average in school completion. Only 36% of residents here finished Year 12, which is far below the typical Australian experience.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just 36% of people completed Year 12, a figure far below the 58.8% national average. Another 36% of the population finished Year 11, while 16% reached Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →McBeath splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (41%) and Year 11 (41%), with Year 10 at 18%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in McBeath hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is among the lowest levels seen across similar areas and is far below the Western Australian figure of 23.8%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 McBeath, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Society & culture at 28%, ahead of Management & commerce (22%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one government combined school within 3km. This school has an average size of 306 students, though its average advantage score is among the lowest at this level.
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).
306
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
661
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving McBeath
1 school — 306 students, average ICSEA 661.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Halls Creek District High School, Halls Creek | Government | Combined | 2.8 km | 306 | 661 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in McBeath [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50919/mcbeath/topic/education