36.2% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Macquarie Plains · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Macquarie Plains
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents in Macquarie Plains hold high-level qualifications compared to most similar areas. Only 9.3% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, a figure that sits far below both the state and national averages. This trend is reflected in the schooling data, where only 36.2% of people have completed Year 12.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the national figure at 36.2%. Nearly half of residents, 46.8%, list Year 10 as their highest year of school.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Macquarie Plains, the largest group is Year 10 at 44%, followed by Year 12 (34%) and Year 11 (16%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 9.3%, which is far below the Tasmanian average of 21.9%. The most common highest qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 42.9% of people.
9.3% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Macquarie Plains, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 57%; Bachelor degree is next at 24%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are most often in architecture and building (21.4%), followed by engineering and management and commerce, which each sit at 14.3%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government combined school within 3km, which is larger than about 59% of similar areas. This school has an average size of 203 students and an advantage score among the lowest at this level.
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).
203
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
890
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Macquarie Plains
1 school — 203 students, average ICSEA 890.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Glenora District School, Glenora | Government | Combined | 2.8 km | 203 | 890 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Macquarie Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60377/macquarie-plains/topic/education