Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Set beside other towns, Portes-lès-Valence comes out below both Drôme’s towns (93.3%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 1 collège and 1 lycée with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Portes-lès-Valence. Portes-lès-Valence grades D for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #27 of 32 in Drôme. 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).
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Portes-lès-Valence with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 1 collège (146 candidates) and 1 lycée (113). 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. 1 collège and 1 lycée 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portes-lès-Valence 1 collège · 1 lycée | D | 84% | 78% |
| Charmes-sur-Rhône 1 collège · 0 lycées · 2.1 mi | C− | 84% | —1 |
| Étoile-sur-Rhône 1 collège · 0 lycées · 2.4 mi | C− | 84% | —1 |
| Beaumont-lès-Valence 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 3.3 mi | C− | 86% | —1 |
| Valence 10 collèges · 11 lycées · 4 mi | C | 86% | 92% |
| Malissard 4 collèges · 5 lycées · 4.2 mi | C− | 88% | 93% |
| Guilherand-Granges 11 collèges · 11 lycées · 4.2 mi | C | 87% | 92% |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Valence has the best-graded schools nearby (C). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade D, better than those around 15% of compared French towns and #27 of 32 in Drôme. In 2025, 84.0% of the 146 candidates at the collège within 5 km passed the brevet (−4 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 78.0% of 113 candidates passed the bac (−6 pts).
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. Portes-lès-Valence 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.