23.0% ▼ -10.5%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Quairading · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Quairading
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 36 percentage points separates Quairading from the national average for Year 12 completion. This area has far lower levels of formal schooling and university degrees compared to the rest of Australia, with only 5.6% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 23% of people here have finished Year 12, which is far below the 58% seen across Western Australia. The most common highest year of school reached is Year 10, at 32.3%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Quairading, the largest group is Year 10 at 43%, followed by Year 12 (31%) and Year 9 or below (18%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 5.6% of the population, which is much lower than most areas. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 23.4% of residents.
5.6% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Quairading, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 51%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are Engineering (10.9%), Health (9.3%), and Management and commerce (9.0%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has 11.76 schools per 1,000 children, which is much higher than most areas. All schooling is provided by a single government combined school with an average size of 133 students.
11.76
Higher than 78% 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).
133
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
879
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Quairading
1 school — 133 students, average ICSEA 879.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Quairading District High School, Quairading | Government | Combined | 2.5 km | 133 | 879 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Quairading [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51268/quairading/topic/education