The collèges and lycées around La Rochelle outscore those around 60% of compared French towns
92.6% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of La Rochelle, close to Charente-Maritime’s towns (91.4%) and above compared French towns (87.5%). 9 collèges and 8 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of La Rochelle. La Rochelle grades B for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #22 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. The social position index (IPS) is shown, not graded.
The town’s figures are weighted by candidates across the schools within 5 km; the comparison is the median of compared French towns (those with an overall grade).
What stands out · In brief
What stands out about the schools near La Rochelle
Around La Rochelle, the lycées do better than those of 38% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 77%. 97% passed the general and technological bac (−1.1 pts against the expected rate), and 92.6% the brevet (+1.2 pts). School Grade ↓
Collège Pierre Mendès France beats its expected rate
79% of 98 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Pierre Mendès France in 2025, 13 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
Private collèges
1 of the 9 collèges within 5 km is private, under contract with the state: it teaches the national curriculum and its pupils sit the same brevet. It counts in the grade like the public ones. Every school ↓
Very different intakes
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 72.4 at Collège Pierre Mendès France to 134.9 at Collège privé Fénelon Notre-Dame. It is shown for context and never graded. Results and background ↓
Written from the Ministry of Education (DEPP) data on this page.
School Grade
La Rochelle grades B for schools
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
Collèges: brevet pass rate and value added (92.6%, +1.2 pts)Better than 77% of compared French towns
Lycées: bac pass rate and value added (93.8%, −2.2 pts)Better than 38% of compared French towns
The collèges lift La Rochelle; the lycées hold it back.
Each of the 9 collèges: % passing the brevet (2025)
Each of the 6 lycées: % passing the general and technological bac (2025)
Each of the 5 lycées: % passing the vocational bac (2025)
The average French school of its kind
2+ points above the expected rateClose to the expected rate2+ points belowNo value added published
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of La Rochelle with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 9 collèges (1,404 candidates) and 8 lycées (2,318). Each school’s pass rate and value added are compared with every French school of its kind, then weighted by candidates; collèges and lycées count equally. A school can count for several towns.
Results and background
Which schools do better than their pupils’ backgrounds suggest
The line is the typical French school for each social position index; the band holds the middle two-thirds. A dot’s color is the ministry’s value added.
Collèges: brevet pass rate against social position index
Lycées: general and technological bac against social position index
2+ points above the expected rateClose to the expected rate2+ points belowNo value added published
Schools whose pupils come from better-off homes usually get higher pass rates. The ministry’s value added already allows for that, and for pupils’ ages: of the 15 schools here, 4 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 3 2 points or more below.
Show as a table
School
IPS
Pass rate
Value added (points)
Collège Pierre Mendès FranceBrevet · Public
72.4
79%
+13 pts
Collège Fabre d'ÉglantineBrevet · Public
106.3
93%
+3 pts
Collège de l'AtlantiqueBrevet · Public
118.7
93%
+3 pts
Collège Jean GuitonBrevet · Public
120.9
97%
+2 pts
Collège Eugène FromentinBrevet · Public
129.5
96%
+1 pt
Collège BeauregardBrevet · Public
110.5
93%
+1 pt
Lycée polyvalent hôtelier du Parc de la FrancophonieBac, gen. & tech. · Public
119.5
100%
+1 pt
Collège Albert CamusBrevet · Public
107.1
89%
±0 pts
Lycée polyvalent privé Fénelon Notre-DameBac, gen. & tech. · Private
136.3
99%
±0 pts
Lycée René-Josué ValinBac, gen. & tech. · Public
118.5
98%
±0 pts
Lycée Jean DautetBac, gen. & tech. · Public
126.7
97%
−1 pt
Lycée polyvalent Léonce VieljeuxBac, gen. & tech. · Public
122.6
97%
−1 pt
Collège privé Fénelon Notre-DameBrevet · Private
134.9
94%
−3 pts
Collège Samuel de MissyBrevet · Public
118.3
88%
−3 pts
Lycée Antoine de Saint-ExupéryBac, gen. & tech. · Public
111.6
91%
−4 pts
IPS: DEPP’s social position index, 2024–25, from parents’ occupations (France’s average pupil ≈ 100). It describes; it doesn’t grade. Value added: the school’s pass rate minus the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages.
Map
The schools within 5 km of La Rochelle
The dashed circle is 5 km (3 miles) from the town’s point, the center of where its residents live; the black outline is the commune.
CollègeLycéePrimary school in La RochelleSize: candidates2+ points above the expected rateClose to the expected rate2+ points belowNo value added published
Points: the Ministry of Education’s school directory.
The schools
9 collèges and 8 lycées within 5 km of La Rochelle
Each with its 2025 result and its value added: how far its pass rate is above or below what the ministry expected from its pupils. 9 collèges and 8 lycées are in the grade. Distances from the town’s point.
Collèges9 · ages 11 to 15, brevet · best value added first
Primary schools in La Rochelle37 · no results published by school
Ecole élémentaire Réaumur La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire La Genette La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.4 mi
Ecole maternelle La Genette La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.4 mi
Ecole maternelle Arcère La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.5 mi
Ecole primaire privée Saint Joseph
Primary school · Private · 0.6 mi
Ecole primaire privée Notre-Dame
Primary school · Private · 0.6 mi
Ecole primaire Rey Valin La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.6 mi
Ecole primaire Massiou La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.6 mi
Ecole maternelle Bernard Palissy La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.7 mi
Ecole élémentaire d'application Palissy La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.7 mi
Ecole maternelle Pierre Loti La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.8 mi
Ecole élémentaire Jean Bart 2 La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.8 mi
Show all 37 primary schools
Ecole élémentaire Pierre Loti La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.8 mi
Ecole maternelle Jean Bart La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.8 mi
Ecole élémentaire d'application Jean Bart 1 La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.8 mi
Ecole maternelle René Descartes
Primary school · Public · 0.9 mi
Ecole élémentaire Descartes La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 0.9 mi
Ecole primaire Paul Doumer La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1 mi
Ecole primaire privée hors contrat Montessori by the sea
Primary school · Private · 1 mi
Ecole primaire Simone Veil La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.1 mi
Ecole primaire Raymond Bouchet La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.1 mi
Ecole maternelle Les Grandes Varennes La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole élémentaire Les Grandes Varennes La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole maternelle Marcelin Berthelot La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire Marcelin Berthelot La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole maternelle Louis Guillet La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire Louis Guillet La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.4 mi
Ecole primaire Barthélémy Profit La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.4 mi
Ecole primaire Beauregard La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole primaire Bongraine La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole primaire Lavoisier La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 1.7 mi
Ecole maternelle Condorcet La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 2 mi
Ecole élémentaire Condorcet La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 2 mi
Ecole maternelle Laleu La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 2 mi
Ecole élémentaire Marie Marvingt La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 2 mi
Ecole maternelle Claude Nicolas La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 2.5 mi
Ecole élémentaire Claude Nicolas La Rochelle
Primary school · Public · 2.5 mi
Results: DEPP, brevet (IVAC) and bac (IVAL) 2025. Not in the grade: a school with results but no value added published (often a small one). Primary schools: the commune’s own, from the school directory.
Neighbors
La Rochelle and the towns around it
Colored by School Grade. Brevet and bac: pass rates across each town’s schools within 5 km.
Nieul-sur-Mer has the best-graded schools nearby (B+). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The brevet. The diplôme national du brevet, taken at 15 at the end of collège: written exams in French, maths, history-geography, sciences and an oral, with the year’s coursework. We use the share of candidates who pass.
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The bac. The baccalauréat at 18: general and technological in most lycées, vocational in lycées professionnels. Each is compared only with schools of its own kind.
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Value added. The ministry’s own measure (IVAC for collèges, IVAL for lycées): a school’s pass rate minus the rate expected from its pupils’ social background and age. It is half of each school’s score in the grade.
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Social position index (IPS). A summary of pupils’ family backgrounds from parents’ occupations, about 100 for the average French pupil. Shown for context; never graded.
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Within 5 km. French families don’t pick a school by the town’s name: a collège serves a catchment set by the département, a lycée one set by the académie. So the grade uses the schools within 5 km of where the town’s residents live, and neighboring towns can share them.
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Primary schools. Not graded: national tests (évaluations nationales) aren’t published school by school. The commune’s primary schools are listed.
They grade B, better than those around 60% of compared French towns and #22 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. In 2025, 92.6% of the 1,404 candidates at the nine collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+1.2 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 93.8% of 2,318 candidates passed the bac (−2.2 pts).
Which collège near La Rochelle does best?
Against the expected rate, Collège Pierre Mendès France (public, 1.1 mi): 79% of 98 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +13 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
Which lycée near La Rochelle does best?
Against the expected rate, Lycée polyvalent hôtelier du Parc de la Francophonie (public, 1.2 mi): 100% of 43 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, +1 pt against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict.
How do children get a place at a collège near La Rochelle?
A state collège takes the children of its catchment area (secteur), which the département council sets; families can ask the académie for an exception (dérogation). Lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment. Private schools under contract admit pupils themselves.
Are primary schools in La Rochelle graded?
No: France doesn’t publish primary results school by school. La Rochelle has 37 primary schools (écoles maternelles and élémentaires), listed above.
Sources: Ministry of Education (DEPP), value added of collèges (IVAC) and lycées (IVAL), 2025 session · DEPP, social position index (IPS) by school, 2024–25 · Ministry of Education, school directory (annuaire de l’éducation) · INSEE, Filosofi 200 m grid (the town’s point) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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