38.5% ▲ +53.5%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Christmas Island · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Christmas Island
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school or university on Christmas Island compared to the rest of the country. Only 38.5% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This gap extends to higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in other Australian areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is well below the other territories figure at 38.5%. This is the most common level of schooling, though 12.9% of people stopped at Year 10 and 11.9% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Christmas Island, Year 12 is the majority at 56%; Year 10 is next at 19%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 11.2% of the population, which is far below the national average of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 22.3% of residents.
11.2% ▲ +35.3%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Christmas Island, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 43%, followed by Bachelor degree (20%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common qualifications at 14.4%, followed by management and commerce at 10.2%. Other notable fields include society and culture at 6.4% and education at 4.8%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
All schools on the island are government-run combined institutions. The average school size is 273 students, which is around the middle for its level.
3.53
Lower than 52% 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).
273
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
996
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Christmas Island
1 school — 273 students, average ICSEA 996.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Christmas Island District High School, Christmas Island | Government | Combined | 8.0 km | 273 | 996 |
Sources
More for Christmas Island
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Christmas Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL90001/christmas-island/topic/education