38.6% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mount Barker · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Mount Barker
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Just 38.6% of residents in Mount Barker have finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure. This highlights a significant gap in formal schooling compared to most other areas. Higher education is also less common here, with fewer people holding university degrees than in the rest of the state.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Completing Year 12 is far less common here than across Australia, where 58.8% finish. About 26.5% of the population had Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Mount Barker, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (31%) and Year 9 or below (13%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are far less common in Mount Barker, with only 10.7% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is much lower than the 26.3% national figure; instead, Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most frequent, held by 32.9% of people.
10.7% ▲ +27.9%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 10.7%
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 Mount Barker, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 47%, followed by Bachelor degree (21%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, with Engineering and Management and Commerce both being the most common at 11.9% each.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has much larger schools than most similar places, with an average size of 632 students. All schools here are government-run and combined primary and secondary types.
2.00
Lower than 71% 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).
632
Higher than 87% 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 Mount Barker
1 school — 632 students, average ICSEA 945.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Mount Barker Community College, Mount Barker | Government | Combined | 2.6 km | 632 | 945 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mount Barker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51004/mount-barker/topic/education