A great deal of value is placed on ‘distance travelled’ for all students. On going monitoring of student performance, recognition and celebration of ‘personal best’ performance and care and support for each student is a key focus of our school.

This report is based on the findings of the Queensland Government Next Step survey, which targeted all students who completed Year 12 and gained a Senior Certificate or Certificate of Post-Compulsory School Education in 2007, whether they attended a Government, Catholic or independent school, or a TAFE secondary college. The Office of the Government Statistician conducted the survey between 2 April and 17 May 2008, approximately six months after the young people left school. Responses were predominantly collected via computer aided telephone interview with a paper-based survey collected from a small number of students for whom telephone details were not available.

The statewide and regional reports of the Next Step survey can be located ate the Next Step website at www.education.qld.gov.au/nextstep

Response rate for Keebra Park State High School

Table 1 below reports the response rate for Keebra Park State High School. It expresses the number of respondents from this school, as a percentage of all Year 12 completers attending Keebra Park State High School in 2006.
It has not been possible to ascertain how representative these responses are of all students at this school.

Table 1 Survey response rate

Definitions of main destinations

The pathways of year 12 completers were categorised into ten main destinations. Respondents who were both studying and working were reported as studying for their main destination. A table defining these categories can be found in the statewide report at www.education.qld.gov.au/nextstep

In 2008, 52.2 per cent of young people who completed their Year 12 at Keebra Park State High School in 2007 continued in some recognised form of education and training in the year after they left school.

The most common study destination was university (16.4 per cent). The combined VET study destinations accounted for 35.8 per cent of respondents, including 23.9 per cent in campus-based VET programs, with 13.4 per cent of Year 12 completers entering programs at Certificate IV level or higher.

11.9 per cent commenced employment-based training, either as an apprentice (9.0 per cent) or trainee (3.0 per cent).

There were no respondents from this school who deferred a tertiary offer in 2008

47.8 per cent did not enter post-school education or training, and were either employed (32.8 per cent), seeking work (10.4 per cent) or neither studying nor in the labour force (4.5 per cent).
Click on the Figure 1 tab to view Main destinations of Year 12 completers.