13.6% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Minjilang · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Minjilang
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Education levels in Minjilang remain well below state and national figures, with only 13.6% of residents completing Year 12. This gap is stark compared to the Northern Territory, where nearly half the population finishes high school. The area is characterised by a small number of students attending very small, government-run schools.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Finishing high school is rare here; only 13.6% of people completed Year 12, which is far below the 49.8% seen across the Northern Territory. The most common highest year of schooling completed is Year 10 at 19.9%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Minjilang splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (30%) and Year 9 or below (28%), with Year 12 at 21%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is uncommon in Minjilang, where just 1.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, far below the national figure of 26.3%. Instead, the most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 26.7% of people.
1.6% —
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Minjilang, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 55%; Certificate I / II is next at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in Minjilang most often studied Education (16.7%) or Society and Culture (15.0%). Other common fields include Engineering and related studies at 13.3%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a very high number of schools per 1,000 children, though these are much smaller than most others with an average size of 33 students. The single local school is a government-run combined primary and secondary facility.
13.51
Higher than 81% 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).
33
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
626
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 Minjilang
1 school — 33 students, average ICSEA 626.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Mamaruni School, Minjilang | Government | Combined | 2.0 km | 33 | 626 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Minjilang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70190/minjilang/topic/education