Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Set beside other towns, Pointe-Noire comes out below compared French towns (87.5%). 1 collège and 1 lycée with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Pointe-Noire. Pointe-Noire grades B− for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #15 of 25 in Guadeloupe. 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 Pointe-Noire, the lycées do better than those of 100% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 0%. 100% passed the general and technological bac (+9 pts against the expected rate), and 63.0% the brevet (−16 pts). School Grade ↓
100% of 58 candidates passed the general and technological bac at Lycée polyvalent de Pointe-Noire in 2025, 9 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. 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 Pointe-Noire; the collèges hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Pointe-Noire with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 1 collège (57 candidates) and 1 lycée (96). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-Noire 1 collège · 1 lycée | B− | 63% | 98% |
| Deshaies 1 collège · 0 lycées · 5.1 mi | D− | 67% | —1 |
| Bouillante 1 collège · 0 lycées · 7.1 mi | C+ | 81% | —1 |
| Sainte-Rose 1 collège · 1 lycée · 9.2 mi | B− | 76% | 97% |
| Lamentin 5 collèges · 3 lycées · 10.7 mi | B | 81% | 85% |
| Vieux-Habitants 1 collège · 0 lycées · 12 mi | D | 64% | —1 |
| Petit-Bourg 1 collège · 1 lycée · 13.6 mi | C | 67% | 94% |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Lamentin has the best-graded schools nearby (B). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade B−, better than those around 50% of compared French towns and #15 of 25 in Guadeloupe. In 2025, 63.0% of the 57 candidates at the collège within 5 km passed the brevet (−16 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 98.0% of 96 candidates passed the bac (+14.1 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. Pointe-Noire has 8 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.