Lycée professionnel Bernard Palissy
Saintes, Charente-Maritime
Schools around Saintes B− better than 50% of compared French towns
Lycée professionnel Bernard Palissy has the best value added of the 4 lycées within 5 km: 91% passed the vocational bac in 2025.
- 91% of its 66 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 71% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- That is +3 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 3 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 97.8, more advantaged than at 76% of French lycées with the vocational bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 1st of the 4 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 4 towns, Saintes among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 1,874 lycées with the vocational bac with published 2025 results; Bernard Palissy is marked.
Pass rate 91%
Higher than at 74% of them.
Value added +3 pts
Higher than at 73% 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 Charente-Maritime’s lycées
2025The 14 lycées with the vocational bac in Charente-Maritime: 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 Jean Hyppolite | 85 | 93% | +3 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Bernard Palissy | 98.1 | 91% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Marcel Dassault | 93.8 | 89% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Louis Audouin Dubreuil | 91.9 | 93% | +2 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Blaise Pascal | 94.1 | 92% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent hôtelier du Parc de la Francophonie | 108.2 | 93% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Pierre Doriole | 89.1 | 86% | −3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent privé Fénelon Notre-Dame | 110.9 | 90% | −3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Émile Combes | 93.6 | 83% | −4 pts |
| Lycée professionnel de l'Atlantique | 98.8 | 84% | −6 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Gilles Jamain | 95.3 | 85% | −7 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent du Pays d'Aunis | 94.1 | 70% | −9 pts |
| Lycée professionnel de Rompsay | 96.9 | 76% | −12 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Léonce Vieljeux | 94.7 | 66% | −20 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 Bernard Palissy, 91% of candidates passed the vocational bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 88%. The difference, +3 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 Lycée professionnel Bernard Palissy
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Saintes
Cost of living in Saintes →Houses €2,100/m² · Apartments €1,992/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
7 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Saintes, Charente-Maritime
Questions about Lycée professionnel Bernard Palissy
Is Lycée professionnel Bernard Palissy a good school?
In 2025, 91% of its 66 candidates passed the vocational bac (the average French school: 84.4%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +3 pts: above what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée professionnel Bernard Palissy?
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 professionnel Bernard Palissy?
97.8 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 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.