40.0% ▼ -40.6%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 67.2%
- 2016: 71.7%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Hervey Bay · State Electorate
Education & Qualifications in Hervey Bay
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A sharp drop in school completions marks the main trend in Hervey Bay, where the rate of Year 12 graduates fell 27 points since 2011. Now, only 40% of residents have finished their final year of school. This decline is matched by a fall in higher education, with the share of adults holding university degrees dropping 21 points over the same period.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 40% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. About 30% of the population had Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Hervey Bay, the largest group is Year 12 at 43%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (15%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here than in most other areas. Just 12.4% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is well below the Queensland figure of 21.9%.
12.4% ▼ -62.4%
Lower than 85% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 12.4%
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 Hervey Bay, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 49%, followed by Bachelor degree (20%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (19%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in engineering and related fields at 15%, followed closely by management and commerce at 14.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
Hervey Bay has larger schools on average than most areas, with a typical size of 711 students. Most of these are government schools, making up 61.5% of the sector.
1.60
Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
13
Lower than 76% of state electorate 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).
9,237
Lower than 52% of state electorate areas.
Total students enrolled across the area's schools.
711
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
993
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Hervey Bay
13 schools — 9,237 students, average ICSEA 993.
By sector: Government 8 · Independent 3 · Catholic 2
By type: Primary 6 · Combined 5 · Secondary 2
| Urangan Point State School, Urangan | Government | Primary | 17.9 km | 272 | 914 |
| Urangan State High School, Urangan | Government | Secondary | 20.6 km | 1,342 | 961 |
| Sandy Strait State School, Urangan | Government | Primary | 20.8 km | 706 | 965 |
| Star of the Sea Catholic School, Torquay | Catholic | Primary | 21.1 km | 388 | 1,010 |
| Torquay State School, Torquay | Government | Primary | 21.4 km | 183 | 875 |
| Hervey Bay Special School, Kawungan | Government | Combined | 22.9 km | 105 | 970 |
| Kawungan State School, Kawungan | Government | Primary | 23.2 km | 877 | 976 |
| Fraser Coast Anglican College, Wondunna | Independent | Combined | 23.5 km | 1,010 | 1,098 |
| Pialba State School, Pialba | Government | Primary | 24.4 km | 367 | 901 |
| Hervey Bay State High School, Pialba | Government | Secondary | 24.5 km | 1,280 | 963 |
| Bayside Christian College Hervey Bay, Urraween | Independent | Combined | 26.5 km | 631 | 1,010 |
| St James Lutheran College, Urraween | Independent | Combined | 26.8 km | 754 | 1,038 |
| Xavier Catholic College, Hervey Bay | Catholic | Combined | 27.3 km | 1,322 | 1,021 |
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Hervey Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30033/hervey-bay/topic/education