Lycée François de Malherbe
Caen, Calvados
Schools around Caen C+ better than 36% of compared French towns
95% of 443 candidates at Lycée François de Malherbe passed the general & technological bac in 2025, below the average French school (96.0%).
- That is −3 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 3 fewer passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 126.7, more advantaged than at 72% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 13th of the 17 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 11 towns, Caen 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; François de Malherbe is marked.
Pass rate 95%
Higher than at 34% of them.
Value added −3 pts
Higher than at 15% 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 Calvados’s lycées
2025The 24 lycées with the general & technological bac in Calvados: 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 Institution Jeanne d'Arc | 119.4 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Institut Lemonnier | 126.3 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Charles Tellier | 106.4 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Sainte-Marie | 136.9 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Albert Sorel | 116.9 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Alain Chartier | 121.3 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Arcisse de Caumont | 109.8 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée privé Jeanne d'Arc | 142.2 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| CaenSup Sainte-Ursule | 116.8 | 97% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Charles de Gaulle | 125 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée général Cours Notre-Dame | 137.1 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Marie Curie | 110.7 | 97% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Victor Hugo | 134.5 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Laplace - Dumont d'Urville | 120.5 | 97% | −1 pt |
| Lycée des métiers Guillaume le Conquérant | 114.8 | 96% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Augustin Fresnel | 114 | 95% | −2 pts |
| Lycée François de Malherbe | 126.7 | 95% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Salvador Allende | 115.1 | 93% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Marcel Gambier | 113.4 | 94% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Marie Joseph | 130.5 | 96% | −3 pts |
| Lycée André Maurois | 112.4 | 90% | −6 pts |
| Lycée Jean Rostand | 106.9 | 89% | −7 pts |
| Lycée Paul Cornu | 100.5 | 86% | −7 pts |
| Institution Frémont | 124.4 | 90% | −8 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 François de Malherbe, 95% 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, −3 pts, is its value added: its pupils pass less often than 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 François de Malherbe
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Caen
Cost of living in Caen →Houses €3,500/m² · Apartments €2,880/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
39 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗
Caen, Calvados
Questions about Lycée François de Malherbe
Is Lycée François de Malherbe a good school?
In 2025, 95% of its 443 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is −3 pts: below what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée François de Malherbe?
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 François de Malherbe?
126.7 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.