Lycée professionnel Paul Belmondo
Arpajon, Essonne
Schools around Arpajon C+ better than 42% of compared French towns
Lycée professionnel Paul Belmondo has the lowest value added of the 4 lycées within 5 km; 80% passed the vocational bac in 2025.
- 80% of its 193 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 29% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- That is −5 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 5 fewer passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 93.3, more advantaged than at 63% of French lycées with the vocational bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 4th of the 4 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 10 towns, Arpajon among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 1,874 lycées with the vocational bac with published 2025 results; Paul Belmondo is marked.
Pass rate 80%
Higher than at 32% of them.
Value added −5 pts
Higher than at 28% 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 Essonne’s lycées
2025The 31 lycées with the vocational bac in Essonne: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée Clément Ader | 86.5 | 94% | +20 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Gustave Eiffel | 93.5 | 90% | +10 pts |
| Lycée Gaspard Monge | 88.3 | 89% | +8 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Louis Armand | 86.1 | 88% | +8 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Jean Monnet | 86.9 | 89% | +6 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Charles Baudelaire | 84.8 | 89% | +4 pts |
| Lycée Geoffroy- Saint-Hilaire | 84.1 | 80% | +3 pts |
| Lycée Marguerite Yourcenar | 88.3 | 83% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Jean Pierre Timbaud | 90.9 | 75% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Saint-Léon | 125 | 97% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Pierre Mendès France | 84.8 | 78% | +1 pt |
| Lycée l'Essouriau | 86.2 | 77% | +1 pt |
| Lycée des Métiers André-Marie Ampère | 87 | 78% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Léonard de Vinci | 86.2 | 82% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Robert Doisneau | 88.8 | 80% | −1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel Château des Coudraies | 93.3 | 82% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Paul Langevin | 83.4 | 77% | −1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Alexandre Denis | 103.1 | 84% | −2 pts |
| Lycée des Métiers Jean Perrin | 87.9 | 74% | −2 pts |
| Lycée professionnel des Frères Moreau | 84.9 | 75% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Nikola Tesla | 99.1 | 81% | −3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Henri Poincaré | 93.1 | 86% | −3 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Nadar | 85.7 | 75% | −4 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Paul Belmondo | 93.3 | 80% | −5 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Auguste Perret | 81.7 | 58% | −6 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Saint-Martin | 132.6 | 88% | −6 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Nelson Mandela | 92.7 | 72% | −9 pts |
| Lycée Georges Brassens | 90 | 66% | −11 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Parc de Vilgénis | 93.4 | 70% | −11 pts |
| Lycée Marie Laurencin | 88.8 | 55% | −19 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Saint-Pierre | 124 | 58% | −35 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 93.3, close to the French average of 91.7: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Paul Belmondo, 80% of candidates passed the vocational bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 85%. The difference, −5 pts, is its value added: its pupils pass less often than 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 Lycée professionnel Paul Belmondo
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Arpajon
Cost of living in Arpajon →Houses €3,130/m² · Apartments €3,092/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
10 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Arpajon, Essonne
Questions about Lycée professionnel Paul Belmondo
Is Lycée professionnel Paul Belmondo a good school?
In 2025, 80% of its 193 candidates passed the vocational bac (the average French school: 84.4%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is −5 pts: below what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée professionnel Paul Belmondo?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
What is the IPS of Lycée professionnel Paul Belmondo?
93.3 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.