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Photo: Chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.02 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Sarlat-la-Canéda. Near Sarlat-la-Canéda, 94.9% of lycée candidates passed the bac, close to Dordogne’s towns (94.1%) and above compared French towns (92.9%). Sarlat-la-Canéda grades B for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #7 of 27 in Dordogne. 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 Sarlat-la-Canéda, the lycées do better than those of 76% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 37%. 98% passed the general and technological bac (+1 pt against the expected rate), and 86.8% the brevet (−2.5 pts). School Grade ↓
90% of 42 candidates passed the brevet at Collège privé Saint-Joseph in 2025, 4 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 2 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 ↓
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 lycées lift Sarlat-la-Canéda; the collèges hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Sarlat-la-Canéda with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 2 collèges (224 candidates) and 2 lycées (346). 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. 1 school has results but no value added published, so it is listed, not graded. 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; the others publish results without value added. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarlat-la-Canéda 2 collèges · 2 lycées | B | 87% | 95% |
| Souillac 1 collège · 2 lycées · 12.4 mi | A− | 97% | 92% |
| Montignac-Lascaux 1 collège · 0 lycées · 12.5 mi | C | 87% | —1 |
| Gourdon 1 collège · 1 lycée · 13.2 mi | B+ | 96% | 97% |
| Le Bugue 1 collège · 0 lycées · 14.2 mi | A− | 90% | —1 |
| Terrasson-Lavilledieu 1 collège · 1 lycée · 17.2 mi | B− | 88% | 93% |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Souillac has the best-graded schools nearby (A−).
They grade B, better than those around 59% of compared French towns and #7 of 27 in Dordogne. In 2025, 86.8% of the 224 candidates at the two collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−2.5 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 94.9% of 346 candidates passed the bac (as expected).
Against the expected rate, Collège privé Saint-Joseph (private, 0.4 mi): 90% of 42 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +4 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 Joséphine Baker (public, 1.5 mi): 98% of 256 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, +1 pt 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. Sarlat-la-Canéda has 7 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).
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.