Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The bac pass rate near Cognac is 96.2%, above both Charente’s towns (93.6%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 4 collèges and 3 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Cognac. Cognac grades B+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #7 of 23 in Charente. 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).
92% of 39 candidates passed the vocational bac at Lycée professionnel Louis Delage in 2025, 7 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 4 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 ↓
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 89.1 at Collège Claude Boucher to 128.4 at Collège privé Saint-Joseph. It is shown for context and never graded. Results and background ↓
Written from the Ministry of Education (DEPP) data on this page.
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Cognac with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 4 collèges (337 candidates) and 3 lycées (429). 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.
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.
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 4 schools here, 2 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 1 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Élisée MousnierBrevet · Public | 111.5 | 95% | +2 pts |
| Collège Félix GaillardBrevet · Public | 98.1 | 93% | +2 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-JosephBrevet · Private | 128.4 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Claude BoucherBrevet · Public | 89.1 | 77% | −7 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.
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.
Points: the Ministry of Education’s school directory.
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. 4 collèges and 3 lycées are in the grade. Distances from the town’s point.
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.
Colored by School Grade. Brevet and bac: pass rates across each town’s schools within 5 km.
| Town | Schools | Brevet | Bac |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cognac 4 collèges · 3 lycées | B+ | 91% | 96% |
| Châteaubernard 4 collèges · 3 lycées · 1.1 mi | B+ | 91% | 96% |
| Val-de-Cognac 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 4 mi | — | — | — |
| Jarnac 1 collège · 0 lycées · 7.5 mi | A− | 90% | —1 |
| Chaniers 1 collège · 2 lycées · 11.5 mi | B+ | 92% | 96% |
| Pons 1 collège · 1 lycée · 13.2 mi | C | 83% | 92% |
| Rouillac 1 collège · 0 lycées · 14.4 mi | D | 82% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Jarnac has the best-graded schools nearby (A−). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade B+, better than those around 72% of compared French towns and #7 of 23 in Charente. In 2025, 90.7% of the 337 candidates at the four collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−0.6 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 96.2% of 429 candidates passed the bac (+0.8 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Élisée Mousnier (public, 0.2 mi): 95% of 107 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +2 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
Against the expected rate, Lycée professionnel Louis Delage (public, 0.8 mi): 92% of 39 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, +7 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict.
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.
No: France doesn’t publish primary results school by school. Cognac has 8 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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.