45.9% ▲ +18.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 45.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Katherine · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Katherine
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 13 percentage points separates Katherine from the national figure for Year 12 completion, which sits at just 45.9% here. While high school completion is far below the Australian average, the town has a surprisingly strong number of adults with university degrees. This mix shows a divide between those who finished school and those with higher qualifications.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Less than half of residents have completed Year 12, which is well below the Northern Territory rate of 49.8%. Around 16.7% of people listed Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Katherine, Year 12 is the majority at 57%; Year 10 is next at 21%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 23% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Northern Territory average. The most common qualifications are bachelor degrees (23.2%) and Certificate III or IV (22.1%).
23.0% ▲ +46.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Katherine splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (33%) and Certificate III / IV (31%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Health is the most common field of study at 14.4%, followed by management and commerce at 12.6% and society and culture at 12.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Katherine has 9.9 schools per 1,000 children, which is much higher than most areas, with eight schools located within 3km. Most of these are government-run (87.5%) and the typical school size is smaller than in most other areas.
9.90
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
8
Higher than 77% 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).
217
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
860
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Katherine
8 schools — 1,737 students, average ICSEA 860.
By sector: Government 7 · Catholic 1
By type: Primary 4 · Combined 3 · Secondary 1
| Katherine School Of The Air, Katherine | Government | Combined | 0.2 km | 137 | 931 |
| Clyde Fenton Primary School, Katherine | Government | Primary | 0.3 km | 114 | 693 |
| St Joseph's Catholic College, Katherine | Catholic | Combined | 1.5 km | 299 | 974 |
| Kintore Street School, Katherine | Government | Combined | 1.7 km | 55 | 757 |
| Katherine High School, Katherine East | Government | Secondary | 2.2 km | 468 | 797 |
| MacFarlane Primary School, Katherine East | Government | Primary | 2.4 km | 189 | 665 |
| Casuarina Street Primary School, Katherine East | Government | Primary | 3.5 km | 295 | 991 |
| Katherine South Primary School, Katherine South | Government | Primary | 3.5 km | 180 | 907 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70144/katherine/topic/education