30.3% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Flowery Gully · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Flowery Gully
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents in Flowery Gully finished high school compared to the rest of the state or country. Only 30.3% of people completed Year 12, which is a gap of 17 percentage points below the Tasmanian figure and 29 points below the national average.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The most common highest year of school finished is Year 10, reached by 39.4% of residents. This contributes to the area having a much lower rate of Year 12 completion than most other similar places.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Flowery Gully, the largest group is Year 10 at 41%, followed by Year 12 (32%) and Year 9 or below (16%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare here, with only 5.8% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the 21.9% seen across Tasmania and the 26.3% national average.
5.8% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Flowery Gully splits fairly evenly between Advanced diploma / diploma (39%) and Certificate III / IV (39%), with Bachelor degree at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with qualifications, the most common fields are Engineering and related subjects at 18.9%, followed by Agriculture, Management, and Society and Culture, which each account for 13.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government primary school within 3km, which is a larger number of schools than about 59% of similar areas. However, this school has an advantage score of 924, which is much lower than most other areas.
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).
244
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
924
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Flowery Gully
1 school — 244 students, average ICSEA 924.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Beaconsfield Primary School, Beaconsfield | Government | Primary | 4.9 km | 244 | 924 |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Flowery Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60206/flowery-gully/topic/education