Collège Louis Merle
Secondigny, Deux-Sèvres
Schools around Secondigny C+ better than 39% of compared French towns
84% of 73 candidates at Collège Louis Merle passed the brevet in 2025, below the average French school (86.9%).
- That is about what pupils with these backgrounds usually get (±0 pts against the expected rate).
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 95.8, less advantaged than at 71% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It counts in the School Grade of 2 towns, Secondigny among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Louis Merle is marked.
Pass rate 84%
Higher than at 37% of them.
Value added ±0 pts
Higher than at 56% 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 Deux-Sèvres’s collèges
2025The 41 collèges in Deux-Sèvres: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé Saint-André | 109 | 99% | +12 pts |
| Collège privé Sainte-Émilie de Rodat | 90.9 | 96% | +8 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Joseph | 108.8 | 98% | +8 pts |
| Collège privé Notre-Dame | 109.4 | 100% | +7 pts |
| Collège Voltaire | 94.6 | 96% | +6 pts |
| Collège Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 104.1 | 92% | +6 pts |
| Collège Le Marchioux | 100.7 | 89% | +6 pts |
| Collège privé Charles Peguy | 105.2 | 97% | +5 pts |
| Collège Denfert-Rochereau | 97.9 | 92% | +5 pts |
| Collège François Villon | 93.7 | 92% | +5 pts |
| Collège Jean Vilar | 114.4 | 95% | +4 pts |
| Collège privé Sainte-Anne | 100.7 | 96% | +4 pts |
| Collège René Caillié | 107.5 | 92% | +4 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Joseph | 98.8 | 92% | +3 pts |
| Collège Henri Martineau | 107.5 | 95% | +3 pts |
| Collège Jacques Prévert | 96 | 90% | +3 pts |
| Collège Pierre Mendès France | 99.9 | 95% | +3 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Charles | 109 | 95% | +3 pts |
| Collège de l'Orangerie | 93.4 | 88% | +2 pts |
| Collège Jean Zay | 98.5 | 81% | +2 pts |
| Collège Émile Zola | 116 | 93% | +2 pts |
| Collège François Truffaut | 91.1 | 84% | +1 pt |
| Collège privé Notre-Dame | 137.2 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Collège privé Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 120.1 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Collège Marie de la Tour d'auvergne | 90.2 | 89% | +1 pt |
| Collège François Albert | 112.4 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Collège du Pinier | 103.3 | 90% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Louis Merle | 95.8 | 84% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Jean Rostand | 91.6 | 87% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Albert Camus | 116.5 | 92% | −1 pt |
| Collège Gérard Philipe | 115.7 | 94% | −1 pt |
| Collège Georges Clemenceau | 85.6 | 84% | −2 pts |
| Collège Jean Monnet | 99.2 | 86% | −2 pts |
| Collège Roger Thabault | 97.9 | 87% | −4 pts |
| Collège Pierre et Marie Curie | 104 | 82% | −4 pts |
| Collège Fontanes | 114.2 | 87% | −5 pts |
| Collège Anne Frank | 92.5 | 79% | −5 pts |
| Collège Jules Supervielle | 91.9 | 79% | −6 pts |
| Collège François Rabelais | 118.3 | 86% | −7 pts |
| Collège Philippe de Commynes | 115.1 | 82% | −8 pts |
| Collège Léo Desaivre | 110.9 | 84% | −9 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 Louis Merle, 84% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 84%. The difference, ±0 pts, is its value added: its pupils do about as well as 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 Collège Louis Merle
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Secondigny
Cost of living in Secondigny →Houses €1,020/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
1 otherCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Secondigny, Deux-Sèvres
Questions about Collège Louis Merle
Is Collège Louis Merle a good school?
In 2025, 84% of its 73 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is ±0 pts: about what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Louis Merle?
A state collège takes the children of its catchment area (secteur), set by the département council; families can ask the académie for an exception (dérogation).
What is the IPS of Collège Louis Merle?
95.8 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.