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Photo: Benoît Prieur · CC082.9% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of Ambérieu-en-Bugey, below both Ain’s towns (91.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%). 2 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Ambérieu-en-Bugey. Ambérieu-en-Bugey grades C+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #35 of 54 in Ain. The social position index (IPS) is shown, not graded.
The town’s figures are weighted by candidates across the schools within 5 km; the comparison is the median of compared French towns (those with an overall grade).
Around Ambérieu-en-Bugey, the lycées do better than those of 69% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 16%. 97% passed the general and technological bac (as expected against the expected rate), and 82.9% the brevet (−5.2 pts). School Grade ↓
90% of 166 candidates passed the vocational bac at Lycée professionnel Alexandre Bérard in 2025, 3 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 2 collèges within 5 km is private, under contract with the state: it teaches the national curriculum and its pupils sit the same brevet. It counts in the grade like the public ones. Every school ↓
Written from the Ministry of Education (DEPP) data on this page.
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
The lycées lift Ambérieu-en-Bugey; the collèges hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Ambérieu-en-Bugey with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 2 collèges (255 candidates) and 2 lycées (647). Each school’s pass rate and value added are compared with every French school of its kind, then weighted by candidates; collèges and lycées count equally. A school can count for several towns.
The dashed circle is 5 km (3 miles) from the town’s point, the center of where its residents live; the black outline is the commune.
Points: the Ministry of Education’s school directory.
Each with its 2025 result and its value added: how far its pass rate is above or below what the ministry expected from its pupils. 2 collèges and 2 lycées are in the grade. Distances from the town’s point.
Results: DEPP, brevet (IVAC) and bac (IVAL) 2025. Not in the grade: a school with results but no value added published (often a small one). Primary schools: the commune’s own, from the school directory.
Colored by School Grade. Brevet and bac: pass rates across each town’s schools within 5 km.
| Town | Schools | Brevet | Bac |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambérieu-en-Bugey 2 collèges · 2 lycées | C+ | 83% | 95% |
| Ambronay 2 collèges · 2 lycées · 3.2 mi | C+ | 81% | 95% |
| Lagnieu 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 4.2 mi | A− | 93% | —1 |
| Villieu-Loyes-Mollon 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 6.4 mi | B+ | 92% | —1 |
| Pont-d'Ain 1 collège · 0 lycées · 6.5 mi | C− | 87% | —1 |
| Meximieux 1 collège · 0 lycées · 8.2 mi | B− | 90% | —1 |
| Chalamont 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 9.1 mi | — | — | — |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Lagnieu has the best-graded schools nearby (A−). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade C+, better than those around 40% of compared French towns and #35 of 54 in Ain. In 2025, 82.9% of the 255 candidates at the two collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−5.2 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 95.2% of 647 candidates passed the bac (+0.8 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Sainte-Marie (private, 0.5 mi): 94% of 88 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, as expected against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
Against the expected rate, Lycée professionnel Alexandre Bérard (public, 1.1 mi): 90% of 166 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, +3 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict.
A state collège takes the children of its catchment area (secteur), which the département council sets; families can ask the académie for an exception (dérogation). Lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment. Private schools under contract admit pupils themselves.
No: France doesn’t publish primary results school by school. Ambérieu-en-Bugey has 7 primary schools (écoles maternelles and élémentaires), listed above.
Sources: Ministry of Education (DEPP), value added of collèges (IVAC) and lycées (IVAL), 2025 session · DEPP, social position index (IPS) by school, 2024–25 · Ministry of Education, school directory (annuaire de l’éducation) · INSEE, Filosofi 200 m grid (the town’s point) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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