35.2% ▲ +36.2%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Port Sorell · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Port Sorell
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer residents have finished high school in Port Sorell than in most other areas. Only 35.2% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below both the Tasmanian and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 10 is the most common highest school year reached for 39.1% of people. This helps explain why the rate of Year 12 completion is far below the Tasmanian average.
Highest year of school
View on map →Port Sorell splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (42%) and Year 12 (37%), with Year 9 or below at 12%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 14.6% of the population, which is well below the state figure. The most common qualification held is a Certificate III or IV, at 42.7%.
14.6% ▲ +47.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 14.6%
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 Port Sorell, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 52%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in this area are spread across several fields, with Engineering and related subjects being the most common at 18.4%, followed by Management and commerce at 14.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area is served by one government primary school within 3km, and the average school size here is 279 students.
2.95
Lower than 58% 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).
279
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
994
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Port Sorell
1 school — 279 students, average ICSEA 994.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Port Sorell Primary School, Port Sorell | Government | Primary | 1.1 km | 279 | 994 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Port Sorell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60516/port-sorell/topic/education