20.9% ▼ -39.4%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Kalangadoo · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Kalangadoo
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A sharp decline in school completion since 2011 marks the current educational landscape in Kalangadoo. Only 20.9% of residents have finished Year 12, a figure that is now among the lowest for similar areas and far below the national average.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion fell by 14 points since 2011, leaving this area far below the South Australian figure of 54.6%. Currently, the most common highest year of school finished is Year 10 at 21.7%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Kalangadoo splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (27%) and Year 12 (26%), with Year 11 at 24%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up just 2.5% of the population, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%. This figure has fallen 4.3 points since 2011, while Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common at 37.7%.
2.5% ▼ -63.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Kalangadoo, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 81%; Bachelor degree is next at 11%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are Engineering and related subjects at 16.4%, followed by Society and Culture at 10.7% and Management and Commerce at 9.8%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Kalangadoo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422023/kalangadoo/topic/education