20.8% ▲ +7.2%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Arumbera · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Arumbera
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Nearly half of adults in Arumbera have a Year 9 education or below. This is a place where formal schooling and university degrees are much less common than in the rest of the Northern Territory and Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 20.8% of residents finished Year 12, a figure far below the Northern Territory's 49.8% and Australia's 58.8%. This is among the lowest levels of Year 12 completion seen in similar areas.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Arumbera, Year 9 or below is the majority at 51%; Year 12 is next at 23%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are uncommon here, with only 9.3% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
9.3% ▲ +42.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 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 Arumbera, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 38%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (28%) and Certificate III / IV (25%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields of study are Education at 23.4% and Health at 12.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Arumbera has a high number of schools per child, with two independent schools serving the area. These schools are smaller than most and have some of the lowest advantage scores in the region.
20.00
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
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).
176
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
852
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Arumbera
2 schools — 352 students, average ICSEA 852.
By sector: Independent 2
By type: Secondary 1 · Combined 1
| Yirara College, Alice Springs | Independent | Secondary | 6.3 km | 190 | 654 |
| Alice Springs Steiner School, Ross | Independent | Combined | 8.2 km | 162 | 1,085 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Arumbera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70019/arumbera/topic/education