Lycée polyvalent Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
Gardanne, Bouches-du-Rhône
Schools around Gardanne B− better than 48% of compared French towns
98% of 482 candidates at Lycée polyvalent Marie-Madeleine Fourcade passed the general & technological bac in 2025, above the average French school (96.0%).
- That is about what pupils with these backgrounds usually get (±0 pts against the expected rate).
- 92% of its 60 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 74% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- That is +4 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 4 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 126.8, more advantaged than at 73% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- It counts in the School Grade of 4 towns, Gardanne among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Marie-Madeleine Fourcade is marked.
Pass rate 98%
Higher than at 67% of them.
Value added ±0 pts
Higher than at 59% of them: the shaded bars.
Each bar counts France’s 1,874 lycées with the vocational bac with published 2025 results; Marie-Madeleine Fourcade is marked.
Pass rate 92%
Higher than at 78% of them.
Value added +4 pts
Higher than at 78% 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 Bouches-du-Rhône’s lycées
2025The 73 lycées with the general & technological bac in Bouches-du-Rhône: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée polyvalent Henri Leroy | 92.1 | 98% | +7 pts |
| Lycée Victor Hugo | 74.5 | 89% | +5 pts |
| Lycée Marcel Pagnol | 92.7 | 94% | +5 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique ORT Léon Bramson | 113.6 | 100% | +5 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame de la Viste | 106.6 | 100% | +5 pts |
| Lycée Polyvalent Montmajour | 101.3 | 96% | +4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Don Bosco | 111.2 | 95% | +4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Denis Diderot | 87.6 | 88% | +4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Simone Veil | 95.1 | 97% | +4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Sainte-Marie | 129.7 | 100% | +3 pts |
| Lycée régional Jean D'Ormesson | 116.8 | 99% | +3 pts |
| Lycée Alphonse Daudet | 97.9 | 97% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Pierre Mendès-France | 108.8 | 99% | +3 pts |
| Lycée Montgrand | 93.7 | 94% | +3 pts |
| Lycée Ami | 130.8 | 99% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean Perrin | 103 | 95% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Antonin Artaud | 97.2 | 94% | +3 pts |
| Lycée de Tour Sainte | 90.5 | 96% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent privé Célony | 126.3 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée régional Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie | 118.7 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean Lurçat | 111.2 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Charles Camas | 119.3 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Joseph les Maristes | 127 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Charles Péguy | 124.7 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Émile Zola | 125.1 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Vauvenargues | 126.7 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée La Nativité | 146.6 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Sainte-Catherine de Sienne | 143.5 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée du Sacré-Coeur | 145.4 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Sainte-Marie | 144.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent de la Méditerranée | 130.6 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Jean de Garguier | 135 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Louis-Sainte-Marie | 128 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Adam de Craponne | 124.4 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Viala Lacoste | 141.3 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean Monnet | 108.6 | 96% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Charles | 111.5 | 96% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Chevreul - Blancarde | 143.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Joseph de la Madeleine | 132.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Notre-Dame de France | 143 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Cours Bastide | 138.1 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Saint-Vincent de Paul | 105.6 | 91% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Sainte-Trinité | 131.4 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Pastré - Grande Bastide | 131.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Paul Melizan | 139.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée L'Olivier - Robert Coffy | 137 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent La Cadenelle | 128.6 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Sévigné | 123.8 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Paul Cézanne | 123.7 | 97% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Saint-Éloi | 137.1 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée international Georges Duby | 136.7 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée régional Monte-Cristo | 126 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Auguste et Louis Lumière | 121.8 | 97% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Marie-Madeleine Fourcade | 126.8 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Arthur Rimbaud | 107.3 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Maurice Genevoix | 104.3 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Charles | 126.7 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame de Sion | 138.7 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée régional César Baldaccini (anciennement lycée du Rempart) | 106.8 | 91% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Marseilleveyre | 124.8 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée de Provence | 158 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Lacordaire | 148.5 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Paul Langevin | 105.1 | 94% | −1 pt |
| Lycée de l'Empéri | 116 | 95% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Thiers | 120.2 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Périer | 108.3 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Exupéry | 78.1 | 85% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Louis Pasquet | 107.4 | 92% | −2 pts |
| Lycée technologique régional Marie Curie | 86.5 | 87% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Honoré Daumier | 113.1 | 93% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Nelson Mandela | 102.3 | 93% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Jean Cocteau | 98.1 | 91% | −3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent hôtelier régional Jean-Paul Passedat | 128.5 | 95% | −3 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 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, 98% of candidates passed the general & technological bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 98%. The difference, ±0 pts, is its value added: its pupils do about as well as similar pupils elsewhere.
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 Lycée polyvalent Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Gardanne
Cost of living in Gardanne →Houses €4,230/m² · Apartments €3,278/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
3 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Gardanne, Bouches-du-Rhône
Questions about Lycée polyvalent Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
Is Lycée polyvalent Marie-Madeleine Fourcade a good school?
In 2025, 98% of its 482 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is ±0 pts: about what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée polyvalent Marie-Madeleine Fourcade?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
What is the IPS of Lycée polyvalent Marie-Madeleine Fourcade?
126.8 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 9, 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.