% of cohort - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's year 12 completion rate was 91.0% as of January 2025, and the trend is broadly stable. Proportion of young people who complete Year 12 (or equivalent) secondary schooling. Year 12 completion is strongly associated with better employment, health, and social outcomes. Data is sourced from ACARA; DESE Attainment Data; Productivity Commission Report on Government Services and updated annually.
Proportion of young people who complete Year 12 (or equivalent) secondary schooling.
Year 12 completion is strongly associated with better employment, health, and social outcomes.
Higher is better
Source: ACARA; DESE Attainment Data; Productivity Commission Report on Government Services
GREEN = favourable trend within acceptable band of baseline. AMBER = flat or mild change. RED = unfavourable trend beyond threshold.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ACARA; DESE Attainment Data; Productivity Commission Report on Government Services), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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