Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Bdx · CC BY-SA 4.03 collèges and 3 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of La Teste-de-Buch. La Teste-de-Buch grades C+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #62 of 93 in Gironde. 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).
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 105.2 at Collège Henri Dheurle to 135.2 at Collège privé Saint-Elme. 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 grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of La Teste-de-Buch with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 3 collèges (396 candidates) and 3 lycées (724). 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, 0 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 3 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Henri DheurleBrevet · Public | 105.2 | 90% | −3 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-ElmeBrevet · Private | 135.2 | 93% | −3 pts |
| Collège Marie BartetteBrevet · Public | 110.4 | 82% | −9 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 3 lycées 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Teste-de-Buch 3 collèges · 3 lycées | C+ | 89% | 94% |
| Arcachon 3 collèges · 3 lycées · 3 mi | C+ | 89% | 94% |
| Gujan-Mestras 3 collèges · 1 lycée · 3.7 mi | B− | 92% | 92% |
| Le Teich 3 collèges · 1 lycée · 6.1 mi | B | 94% | 92% |
| Lanton 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 8.7 mi | A | 95% | 99% |
| Audenge 1 collège · 0 lycées · 8.9 mi | A+ | 97% | —1 |
| Biganos 1 collège · 0 lycées · 9.1 mi | A | 96% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Audenge 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 35% of compared French towns and #62 of 93 in Gironde. In 2025, 88.9% of the 396 candidates at the three collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−4.5 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 93.5% of 724 candidates passed the bac (−2.1 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Henri Dheurle (public, 1.4 mi): 90% of 165 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, −3 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 privé Saint-Elme (private, 2.8 mi): 100% of 114 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. La Teste-de-Buch 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 4, 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.