33.0% ▲ +12.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wagin · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wagin
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer people in Wagin have finished high school compared to the rest of the country, with only 33% completing Year 12. This means a higher proportion of adults rely on trade certificates or earlier schooling for their skills. The local education landscape is centred on a single government-run school that serves the whole community.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 33% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 58%. About 31.5% of people stopped after Year 10, and 11.5% left school at Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Wagin splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (38%) and Year 10 (36%), with Year 9 or below at 13%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 9.1%, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Instead, Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common, held by 34.9% of residents.
9.1% ▲ +45.3%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Wagin, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 24%.
Field of study
What people studied.
People with qualifications in Wagin most often studied Engineering and related fields, at 20.4%, followed by Management and commerce at 10.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area is served by one government school that combines primary and secondary students. This school has an average size of 217 students, which is lower than most similar areas.
4.63
Higher than 57% 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).
217
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
934
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Wagin
1 school — 217 students, average ICSEA 934.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Wagin District High School, Wagin | Government | Combined | 1.0 km | 217 | 934 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wagin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51501/wagin/topic/education