42.4% ▲ +27.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Gravelly Beach · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Gravelly Beach
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school in Gravelly Beach compared to the rest of the country. Only 42.4% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This gap extends to higher education, where bachelor degrees are much less common than in other Tasmanian areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 42.4%, well below the Tasmanian average of 47.1%. About 29% of residents finished Year 10, while 11.8% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Gravelly Beach, the largest group is Year 12 at 46%, followed by Year 10 (31%) and Year 9 or below (13%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 13.4% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the 26.3% seen across Australia. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 36.5% of residents.
13.4% ▲ +22.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 13.4%
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 Gravelly Beach, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 49%, followed by Bachelor degree (24%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
People with qualifications in Gravelly Beach most often studied engineering and related fields, at 14.3%. Management and commerce follow at 11.9%, with health at 10.6%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are two government schools within 3km, which is more than about 66% of similar areas. These schools have an average size of 323 students, though their advantage score is lower than most areas.
2
Higher than 62% 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).
323
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
956
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Gravelly Beach
2 schools — 646 students, average ICSEA 956.
By sector: Government 2
By type: Primary 1 · Secondary 1
| Exeter Primary School, Exeter | Government | Primary | 1.8 km | 321 | 972 |
| Exeter High School, Exeter | Government | Secondary | 2.0 km | 325 | 941 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Gravelly Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60248/gravelly-beach/topic/education