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Feasibility Study into secondary education in the broader

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BeaumarisBlack RockCheltenhamHamptonHampton EastHighettMentoneSandr<strong>in</strong>ghamTotal<strong>Feasibility</strong> <strong>Study</strong> ContextIn 2011, <strong>the</strong> primary and <strong>secondary</strong> school age children representapproximately 19% of this total population 6 . Unfortunately, ABS data byage cohort does not align neatly with <strong>the</strong> primary and <strong>secondary</strong> schoolage break po<strong>in</strong>ts of 5 – 12 for primary school and 12 – 18 for <strong>secondary</strong>.Us<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> two age cohorts of 5 – 14 and 15 – 19 as proxies for school agechildren, Table 4 below shows <strong>the</strong>re are 11,157 school age children <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><strong>broader</strong> Sandr<strong>in</strong>gham catchment area.Table 4: Data Source Demographic <strong>Study</strong>: Sandr<strong>in</strong>gham College, Spatial Vision,September 2012Population Cohort 20110-4 year olds 676 309 232 556 375 641 239 600 3,6285-14 year olds 1,834 770 396 1,333 562 969 558 1,245 7,66715-19 year olds 909 334 221 524 240 384 339 539 3,490Total School Age (5 – 19) 2,743 1,140 617 1,857 802 1,353 897 1,784 11,157Total School Age (5-19) asa % of Total Population21.4% 18.2% 16.6% 21.8% 16.8% 17.4% 15.7% 19.3% 19.0%The largest proportion of <strong>the</strong>se children 2,713 (25%) live <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> suburb ofBeaumaris as shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 2 below.6 ABS data as presented by Spatial Vision (school age population divided by total catchmentpopulation)Page 11 of 22

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