43.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mettler · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Very few residents in Mettler hold university degrees, making it an area where formal higher education is uncommon. Only 43.5% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%.
Highest year of school completed.
School completion is much lower than in the rest of Australia, with only 43.5% of residents finishing Year 12. About 26.1% of the population left school after Year 10, while 17.4% finished Year 9 or below.
43.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Mettler, the largest group is Year 12 at 43%, followed by Year 10 (26%) and Year 9 or below (17%).
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in Mettler hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Western Australian average of 23.8% and the national figure of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Mettler, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Engineering & related at 71%, ahead of Natural & physical sciences (0%).
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has one primary school, which is run by the government. This school is much smaller than most others in similar areas, with a typical size of 28 students.
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).
28
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1,000
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
1 school — 28 students, average ICSEA 1,000.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Wellstead Primary School, Wellstead | Government | Primary | 12.8 km | 28 | 1,000 |
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mettler [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50942/mettler/topic/education