80.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Orange Springs · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A high rate of school completion marks Orange Springs, where 80% of people finished Year 12. This is far above the state and national figures, reflecting a well-educated population for the area.
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is among the highest at this level, sitting at 80%. This is far above the Western Australian figure of 58% and the Australian figure of 58.8%.
80.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Orange Springs, Year 12 is the majority at 89%; Year 10 is next at 11%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 23.3% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is much higher than most similar areas and about the same as the state average.
23.3% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Orange Springs splits fairly evenly between Graduate diploma / certificate (27%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (27%), with Certificate III / IV at 27%.
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Society & culture at 31%, ahead of Engineering & related (19%).
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller than about 59% of similar places.
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Lower than 99% 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Orange Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51186/orange-springs/topic/education