Collège Saint-Joseph
Montluçon, Allier
Schools around Montluçon D better than 9% of compared French towns
Collège Saint-Joseph has the best value added of the 5 collèges within 5 km: 95% passed the brevet in 2025.
- 95% of its 73 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, higher than at 75% of French collèges.
- That is +2 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 2 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 116.1, more advantaged than at 76% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 1st of the 5 collèges within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 4 towns, Montluçon among them (every graded town within 5 km).
- 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 95%
Higher than at 79% of them.
Value added +2 pts
Higher than at 72% of them: the shaded bars.
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.
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.
At Saint-Joseph, 95% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 93%. The difference, +2 pts, is its value added: the school does more for its pupils than the pass rate alone shows.
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 Montluçon
Cost of living in Montluçon →Houses €1,091/m² · Apartments €651/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 ↗Montluçon, Allier
Questions about Collège Saint-Joseph
Is Collège Saint-Joseph a good school?
In 2025, 95% of its 73 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +2 pts: above what similar pupils usually get.
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?
116.1 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.