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Photo: Clem Rutter, Rochester Kent · CC BY 2.5Near Saint-Amand-Montrond, 88.9% of lycée candidates passed the bac, below both Cher’s towns (92.4%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 2 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Saint-Amand-Montrond. Saint-Amand-Montrond grades C+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #8 of 14 in Cher. 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).
Around Saint-Amand-Montrond, the lycées do better than those of 8% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 78%. 90% passed the general and technological bac (−5 pts against the expected rate), and 89.4% the brevet (+3.4 pts). School Grade ↓
91% of 90 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Jean Valette in 2025, 5 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. 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 collèges lift Saint-Amand-Montrond; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Saint-Amand-Montrond with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 2 collèges (187 candidates) and 2 lycées (198). 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 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. 2 collèges and 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Amand-Montrond 2 collèges · 2 lycées | C+ | 89% | 89% |
| Dun-sur-Auron 1 collège · 0 lycées · 11.3 mi | A | 94% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Dun-sur-Auron has the best-graded schools nearby (A).
They grade C+, better than those around 41% of compared French towns and #8 of 14 in Cher. In 2025, 89.4% of the 187 candidates at the two collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+3.4 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 88.9% of 198 candidates passed the bac (−2.6 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Jean Valette (public, 0.8 mi): 91% of 90 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +5 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 Jean Guéhenno (public, 0.5 mi): 84% of 45 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, as expected 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. Saint-Amand-Montrond has 6 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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