Collège Victor Hugo
Lavelanet, Ariège
Schools around Lavelanet B+ better than 67% of compared French towns
Collège Victor Hugo adds +6 pts to the pass rate expected from its pupils: more than 87% of French collèges.
- 93% of its 58 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, higher than at 68% of French collèges.
- That is +6 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 6 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 93.7, less advantaged than at 75% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It counts in the School Grade of 2 towns, Lavelanet among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Victor Hugo is marked.
Pass rate 93%
Higher than at 71% of them.
Value added +6 pts
Higher than at 91% 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 Ariège’s collèges
2025The 15 collèges in Ariège: 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 Victor Hugo | 93.7 | 93% | +6 pts |
| Collège Jean XXIII | 109.4 | 97% | +5 pts |
| Collège André Saint-Paul | 111.5 | 97% | +4 pts |
| Collège Notre-Dame | 121.2 | 99% | +2 pts |
| Collège Gaston Fébus | 106.6 | 91% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Joseph-Paul Rambaud | 94.8 | 83% | −1 pt |
| Collège Mont Valier | 103.4 | 87% | −1 pt |
| Collège Lakanal | 108.4 | 83% | −4 pts |
| Collège Pierre Bayle | 101.1 | 86% | −4 pts |
| Collège Louis Pasteur | 89.9 | 72% | −5 pts |
| Cité scolaire de Mirepoix - collège | 102 | 85% | −6 pts |
| Collège Mario Beulaygue | 107.6 | 85% | −7 pts |
| Collège du Sabarthès-Montcalm, site de Tarascon-sur-Ariège | 99.8 | 74% | −9 pts |
| Collège François Verdier | 106.2 | 80% | −11 pts |
| Collège du Girbet | 103.9 | 74% | −13 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 Victor Hugo, 93% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 87%. The difference, +6 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 Victor Hugo
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Lavelanet
Cost of living in Lavelanet →Houses €971/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
2 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Lavelanet, Ariège
Questions about Collège Victor Hugo
Is Collège Victor Hugo a good school?
In 2025, 93% of its 58 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +6 pts: above what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Victor Hugo?
A state collège takes the children of its catchment area (secteur), set by the département council; families can ask the académie for an exception (dérogation).
What is the IPS of Collège Victor Hugo?
93.7 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.