Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The brevet pass rate near Dourdan is 84.1%, above Essonne’s towns (81.7%) but below compared French towns (87.5%). 3 collèges and 1 lycée with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Dourdan. Dourdan grades C+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #19 of 94 in Essonne. 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 Dourdan, the lycées do better than those of 72% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 15%. 97% passed the general and technological bac (+2 pts against the expected rate), and 84.1% the brevet (−6.7 pts). School Grade ↓
99% of 88 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Jeanne d'Arc in 2025, 4 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 3 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 ↓
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 110.4 at Collège Condorcet to 137 at Collège Jeanne d'Arc. It is shown for context and never graded. 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 lycées lift Dourdan; the collèges hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Dourdan with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 3 collèges (358 candidates) and 1 lycée (617). 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 line is the typical French school for each social position index; the band holds the middle two-thirds. A dot’s color is the ministry’s value added.
Schools whose pupils come from better-off homes usually get higher pass rates. The ministry’s value added already allows for that, and for pupils’ ages: of the 3 schools here, 1 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 2 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jeanne d'ArcBrevet · Private | 137 | 99% | +4 pts |
| Collège Émile AuvrayBrevet · Public | 111.4 | 81% | −6 pts |
| Collège CondorcetBrevet · Public | 110.4 | 78% | −13 pts |
IPS: DEPP’s social position index, 2024–25, from parents’ occupations (France’s average pupil ≈ 100). It describes; it doesn’t grade. Value added: the school’s pass rate minus the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages.
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. 3 collèges 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dourdan 3 collèges · 1 lycée | C+ | 84% | 93% |
| Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines 1 collège · 0 lycées · 4.6 mi | D | 86% | —1 |
| Saint-Chéron 1 collège · 0 lycées · 5.3 mi | D− | 81% | —1 |
| Forges-les-Bains 3 collèges · 1 lycée · 7.7 mi | A− | 96% | 98% |
| Ablis 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 7.9 mi | — | — | — |
| Breuillet 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 8.1 mi | D− | 80% | —1 |
| Étréchy 1 collège · 0 lycées · 8.4 mi | D− | 80% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Forges-les-Bains has the best-graded schools nearby (A−). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade C+, better than those around 42% of compared French towns and #19 of 94 in Essonne. In 2025, 84.1% of the 358 candidates at the three collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−6.7 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 92.5% of 617 candidates passed the bac (+0.6 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Jeanne d'Arc (private, 0.1 mi): 99% of 88 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.
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. Dourdan 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 October 30, 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.