Collège Saint-Joseph
Cusset, Allier
Schools around Cusset C− better than 18% of compared French towns
96% of 114 candidates at Collège Saint-Joseph passed the brevet in 2025; the ministry publishes no value added for it.
- The ministry publishes no value added for its brevet.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 121.7, more advantaged than at 84% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It is in no town’s School Grade: that takes a published pass rate and value added.
- A private school under contract with the state: it follows the national curriculum and sets its own admissions.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Saint-Joseph is marked.
Pass rate 96%
Higher than at 83% of them.
One year of results: the ministry’s file has the 2025 session only. With under 30 candidates, one pupil moves the rate several points.
Side by side with Allier’s collèges
2025The 31 collèges in Allier: further right, more advantaged pupils; higher, more passed. Backgrounds explain much of the spread, which is why value added, the colour, is the fairer comparison. Saint-Joseph isn’t among them: only schools with a published value added are compared.
Show as a table
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Émile Mâle | 93.7 | 92% | +10 pts |
| Collège André Boutry | 91.4 | 91% | +8 pts |
| Collège Jean Baptiste Desfilhes | 100.9 | 99% | +6 pts |
| Collège Lucien Colon | 93.7 | 94% | +6 pts |
| Collège Saint-Benoît | 108.9 | 95% | +5 pts |
| Collège Charles Péguy | 107.1 | 90% | +4 pts |
| Collège Émile Guillaumin | 84.8 | 86% | +4 pts |
| Collège Saint-Dominique | 129.5 | 98% | +3 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 116.1 | 95% | +2 pts |
| Collège François Rabelais | 110.2 | 94% | +2 pts |
| Collège Victor Hugo | 101.2 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Collège François Villon | 106.4 | 89% | −1 pt |
| Collège Achille Allier | 104.3 | 88% | −2 pts |
| Collège Jean de la Fontaine | 93.6 | 86% | −2 pts |
| Collège Blaise de Vigenère | 98.1 | 79% | −2 pts |
| Collège Maurice Constantin Weyer | 93.4 | 82% | −3 pts |
| Collège George Sand | 100.7 | 87% | −3 pts |
| Collège Anne de Beaujeu | 102.9 | 87% | −3 pts |
| Collège Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 85.5 | 80% | −4 pts |
| Collège Jules Ferry | 95.8 | 81% | −4 pts |
| Collège Marie Curie | 100.8 | 85% | −5 pts |
| Collège Jean Rostand | 98 | 81% | −6 pts |
| Collège Les Célestins | 97.3 | 82% | −7 pts |
| Collège Louis Aragon | 96.4 | 83% | −8 pts |
| Collège Ferdinand Dubreuil | 93.4 | 78% | −8 pts |
| Collège Jean Zay | 76.5 | 77% | −8 pts |
| Collège Émile Guillaumin | 98 | 75% | −10 pts |
| Collège Jean-Jacques Soulier | 97.1 | 74% | −11 pts |
| Collège Jules Ferry | 100.8 | 73% | −12 pts |
| Collège Joseph Hennequin | 102.9 | 73% | −14 pts |
| Collège Louis Pergaud | 97.2 | 75% | −15 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25The social position index (IPS) sums up pupils’ family backgrounds from their parents’ occupations. Around 100 is typical; higher means more advantaged homes (from about 50 to 160). Shown, never graded.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
The ministry publishes no value added for this school’s brevet (usually because there are too few candidates), so only its pass rate is shown.
A school with advantaged pupils passes nearly everyone, whatever it does; one with disadvantaged pupils can teach very well and still pass fewer. Value added takes the pupils out of the comparison. Near 100% the measure has little room: a school expected to pass 99% can’t show much above it.
French schools get no letter of their own: the ministry’s value added is the fairer measure, shown as it is. A town’s School Grade blends the pass rates and value added of every collège and lycée within 5 km of it.
Living near Collège Saint-Joseph
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Cusset
Cost of living in Cusset →Houses €1,585/m² · Apartments €1,291/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
10 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Cusset, Allier
Questions about Collège Saint-Joseph
Is Collège Saint-Joseph a good school?
In 2025, 96% of its 114 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). The ministry publishes no value added for it, so its results can’t be set against its pupils’ backgrounds.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Saint-Joseph?
It is a private school under contract with the state: it admits pupils itself, so ask the school.
What is the IPS of Collège Saint-Joseph?
121.7 in 2024–25. The social position index sums up pupils’ family backgrounds; around 100 is typical. TownRatings shows it for context and never grades it.
Sources: Ministry of Education (DEPP), value added of collèges (IVAC) and lycées (IVAL), 2025 session · DEPP, social position index (IPS), 2024–25 · Ministry of Education, school directory (annuaire de l’éducation) · DVF property sales. All under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab). Updated November 4, 2026.
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.