Lycée Guez de Balzac
Angoulême, Charente
Schools around Angoulême B− better than 52% of compared French towns
93% of 319 candidates at Lycée Guez de Balzac 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 115.6, less advantaged than at 52% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 7th of the 10 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 7 towns, Angoulême 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; Guez de Balzac is marked.
Pass rate 93%
Higher than at 21% 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 Charente’s lycées
2025The 10 lycées with the general & technological bac in Charente: 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 Élie Vinet | 111.5 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Émile Roux | 100.5 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Lycée privé Beaulieu | 129.6 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Marguerite de Valois | 106.4 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Charles Augustin Coulomb | 115.7 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée privé Saint-Paul | 128.9 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée de l'image et du son | 114.9 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean Monnet | 111.1 | 97% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée privé Sainte-Marthe Chavagnes | 128.8 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Guez de Balzac | 115.6 | 93% | −3 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 115.6, close to the French average of 117.8: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Guez de Balzac, 93% of candidates passed the general & technological bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 96%. 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 Guez de Balzac
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Angoulême
Cost of living in Angoulême →Houses €1,717/m² · Apartments €1,601/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
21 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Angoulême, Charente
Questions about Lycée Guez de Balzac
Is Lycée Guez de Balzac a good school?
In 2025, 93% of its 319 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 Guez de Balzac?
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 Guez de Balzac?
115.6 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.