43.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 72.7%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Tipperary · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Tipperary
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Few residents in Tipperary hold university degrees, placing the area among the lowest for higher qualifications. Only 43.5% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This reflects a community where vocational training is much more common than academic degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
School completion rates are well below the Northern Territory average, with 43.5% of people finishing Year 12. Roughly 26.1% of residents stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Tipperary, Year 12 is the majority at 54%; Year 10 is next at 32%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in the area hold a bachelor's degree or higher, a gap of 26 points compared to the Australian average. Instead, the most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 56% of adults.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Tipperary, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 74%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 26%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across a few fields, with Engineering and related subjects being the most common at 28%. Food, hospitality and personal services follow at 20%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Tipperary has three schools within 3 km, though they are much smaller than those in most areas with an average size of 29 students. The school advantage score is among the lowest for similar areas.
3
Higher than 67% 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).
29
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
752
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Tipperary
3 schools — 88 students, average ICSEA 752.
By sector: Government 2 · Catholic 1
By type: Primary 2 · Combined 1
| St Francis Xavier Catholic School, Daly River | Catholic | Combined | 21.5 km | 78 | 724 |
| Tipperary Station School, Tipperary | Government | Primary | 29.0 km | 5 | 911 |
| Douglas Daly School, Douglas-Daly | Government | Primary | 39.5 km | 5 | 1,022 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Tipperary [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70259/tipperary/topic/education