Lycée polyvalent Philippe Cousteau
Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde
Schools around Saint-André-de-Cubzac B+ better than 72% of compared French towns
Lycée polyvalent Philippe Cousteau teaches pupils from less advantaged homes than at 95% of French lycées with the general & technological bac (IPS 92.4), and 96% passed the general & technological bac.
- 96% of its 231 candidates passed the general & technological bac in 2025, higher than at 34% of French lycées with the general & technological bac.
- That is about what pupils with these backgrounds usually get (+1 pt against the expected rate).
- 88% of its 100 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 59% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- That is +2 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 2 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 92.4, less advantaged than at 95% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- It counts in the School Grade of 5 towns, Saint-André-de-Cubzac among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 93, close to the French average of 91.7: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Philippe Cousteau is marked.
Pass rate 96%
Higher than at 44% of them.
Value added +1 pt
Higher than at 82% of them: the shaded bars.
Each bar counts France’s 1,874 lycées with the vocational bac with published 2025 results; Philippe Cousteau is marked.
Pass rate 88%
Higher than at 64% of them.
Value added +2 pts
Higher than at 67% 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.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Philippe Cousteau, 96% of candidates passed the general & technological bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 95%. The difference, +1 pt, is its value added: its pupils do about as well as 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 polyvalent Philippe Cousteau
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Saint-André-de-Cubzac
Cost of living in Saint-André-de-Cubzac →Houses €2,522/m² · Apartments €2,455/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
3 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde
Questions about Lycée polyvalent Philippe Cousteau
What is the IPS of Lycée polyvalent Philippe Cousteau?
92.4 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.
Is Lycée polyvalent Philippe Cousteau a good school?
In 2025, 96% of its 231 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +1 pt: about what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée polyvalent Philippe Cousteau?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
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 9, 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.