Collège Pierre et Marie Curie
Potigny, Calvados
Schools around Potigny A better than 94% of compared French towns
96% of 70 candidates at Collège Pierre et Marie Curie passed the brevet in 2025, above the average French school (86.9%).
- 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 103.5, less advantaged than at 51% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It counts in the School Grade of Potigny (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Pierre et Marie Curie is marked.
Pass rate 96%
Higher than at 83% of them.
Value added +4 pts
Higher than at 83% 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 collèges
2025The 69 collèges 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Pierre Simon de Laplace | 81.8 | 84% | +14 pts |
| Collège institut Saint-Jean Eudes | 110.2 | 100% | +9 pts |
| Collège Stephen Hawking | 88 | 86% | +8 pts |
| Collège Notre-Dame | 110.2 | 97% | +8 pts |
| Collège Lottin de Laval | 95.2 | 86% | +7 pts |
| Collège Notre-Dame | 118.1 | 99% | +6 pts |
| Collège Octave Mirbeau | 97.1 | 94% | +6 pts |
| Collège André Maurois | 112.9 | 93% | +5 pts |
| Collège Sainte-Trinite | 110.5 | 100% | +5 pts |
| Collège Saint-Pierre | 134.8 | 100% | +4 pts |
| Collège Maîtrise Notre-Dame | 125.5 | 99% | +4 pts |
| Collège Pierre et Marie Curie | 103.5 | 96% | +4 pts |
| Collège Institution Jeanne d'Arc | 117.9 | 94% | +3 pts |
| Collège Saint-Paul | 133.3 | 99% | +3 pts |
| Collège Guillaume de Normandie | 82.7 | 76% | +3 pts |
| Collège Jean Moulin | 117.1 | 95% | +3 pts |
| Collège Alfred Kastler | 116.7 | 96% | +3 pts |
| Collège Marie Joseph | 130.6 | 99% | +3 pts |
| Collège Pasteur | 134.6 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Collège Louis Pergaud | 97.9 | 87% | +2 pts |
| Collège de la Mine | 99.3 | 92% | +2 pts |
| Collège Gustave Flaubert | 106.2 | 92% | +2 pts |
| Collège Sainte-Thérèse | 117.6 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Institution Saint-Pierre | 133.9 | 97% | +1 pt |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 136.8 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Collège Les sources d'Aure | 94.9 | 89% | +1 pt |
| Collège Jean de la Varende | 117.7 | 94% | +1 pt |
| Collège Paul Verlaine | 117.2 | 95% | +1 pt |
| Collège Anne Frank | 92.6 | 88% | +1 pt |
| Collège Jacques Prévert | 122.7 | 96% | +1 pt |
| Collège Fernand Lechanteur | 95.8 | 88% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Marcel Gambier | 109 | 88% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Charles Letot | 105.9 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Collège Jacques Monod | 109.2 | 90% | −1 pt |
| Collège des Douits | 102.7 | 88% | −1 pt |
| Collège Jean Monnet | 116.1 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Collège du Bois d'Orceau | 111.6 | 92% | −1 pt |
| Collège Montgomeri | 110.4 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Collège Charles Lemaître | 100.1 | 88% | −2 pts |
| Collège Villey Desmeserets | 109.3 | 87% | −2 pts |
| Collège Léopold Sédar Senghor | 106 | 89% | −2 pts |
| Collège Simone Veil | 106.2 | 91% | −2 pts |
| Collège Alain Chartier | 104.5 | 83% | −3 pts |
| Collège Michelet | 91.2 | 84% | −3 pts |
| Collège Boris Vian | 90.3 | 80% | −3 pts |
| Collège Sacré-Coeur | 114 | 90% | −4 pts |
| Collège Henri Brunet | 108 | 86% | −4 pts |
| Collège Alphonse Allais | 105.1 | 86% | −4 pts |
| Collège Val de Souleuvre | 97.9 | 80% | −5 pts |
| Collège Cingal | 108.5 | 85% | −5 pts |
| Collège Gisèle Guillemot | 94.1 | 76% | −5 pts |
| Collège Hastings | 115.6 | 87% | −6 pts |
| Collège Quintefeuille | 111 | 84% | −6 pts |
| Collège Charles Mozin | 96.1 | 85% | −6 pts |
| Collège Émile Zola | 101.2 | 77% | −7 pts |
| Collège Guy de Maupassant | 108.5 | 81% | −8 pts |
| Collège Clément Marot | 120.9 | 81% | −9 pts |
| Collège Fernand Léger | 93.1 | 75% | −9 pts |
| Collège Jean Castel | 102.7 | 77% | −10 pts |
| Collège Langevin Wallon | 104.4 | 78% | −10 pts |
| Collège Paul Éluard | 84.5 | 66% | −11 pts |
| Collège Jacques Prévert | 89.8 | 71% | −11 pts |
| Collège Dumont d'Urville | 93.1 | 73% | −12 pts |
| Collège Pierre Varignon | 87.6 | 70% | −12 pts |
| Collège Roger Bellair | 105.9 | 78% | −12 pts |
| Collège Maupas | 98.6 | 76% | −13 pts |
| Collège Jean Vilar | 98.5 | 74% | −14 pts |
| Collège Dunois | 86.9 | 69% | −15 pts |
| Collège Nelson Mandela | 80.8 | 59% | −19 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 103.5, close to the French average of 105.2: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Pierre et Marie Curie, 96% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 92%. The difference, +4 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 Pierre et Marie Curie
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Potigny
Cost of living in Potigny →Houses €2,038/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Map
Directions ↗Potigny, Calvados
Questions about Collège Pierre et Marie Curie
Is Collège Pierre et Marie Curie a good school?
In 2025, 96% of its 70 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +4 pts: above what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Pierre et Marie Curie?
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 Pierre et Marie Curie?
103.5 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.