58.5% —
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 58.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Finniss Valley · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Finniss Valley
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 13 percentage points separates Finniss Valley from the national figure for bachelor degrees, though school completion is a stronger point. Finniss Valley has seen 58.5% of people complete Year 12, which is well above the Northern Territory average.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is 58.5%, which is much higher than most similar areas and well above the Territory figure of 49.8%. This is about the same as the national rate of 58.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Finniss Valley, Year 12 is the majority at 66%; Year 10 is next at 22%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 12.9% of the population. This is well below the Northern Territory figure of 21.5% and far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
12.9% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Finniss Valley, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 45%, followed by Certificate III / IV (30%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (25%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in Engineering and related fields at 22.0%, followed by Agriculture and environment at 14.6% and Management and commerce at 12.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government school in the area, which is smaller than most others. This school has an average advantage score of 723, placing it among the lowest for its 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).
105
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
723
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 Finniss Valley
1 school — 105 students, average ICSEA 723.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Batchelor Area School, Batchelor | Government | Combined | 9.1 km | 105 | 723 |
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Finniss Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70100/finniss-valley/topic/education