14.4% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Barunga · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Barunga
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 14.4% of people in Barunga have completed Year 12, a figure far below the national average. This highlights a significant gap in formal schooling compared to the rest of Australia and the Northern Territory. Most residents have finished school at Year 11 or earlier.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is among the lowest of similar areas, sitting 35 points below the Northern Territory average. In Barunga, 31.5% of people finished at Year 11 and 29.2% at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Barunga splits fairly evenly between Year 11 (31%) and Year 10 (29%), with Year 9 or below at 26%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up just 5.9% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Among those with qualifications, the most common are bachelor degrees and Certificate III or IV, both at 28.3%.
5.9% ▲ +6.4%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Barunga splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (36%) and Certificate III / IV (36%), with Certificate I / II at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, with education and management and commerce both accounting for 21.7% of degrees. Engineering and related fields make up 17.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Barunga has a higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the average school size of 81 is much lower than usual. The local school is government-run and combines all year levels.
8.62
Higher than 72% 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).
81
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
614
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Barunga
1 school — 81 students, average ICSEA 614.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Barunga School, Barunga | Government | Combined | 0.5 km | 81 | 614 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Barunga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70023/barunga/topic/education