Lycée polyvalent Élie Castor
Kourou, French Guiana
Schools around Kourou B better than 60% of compared French towns
Lycée polyvalent Élie Castor teaches pupils from less advantaged homes than at almost all of French lycées with the general & technological bac (IPS 82.8), and 93% passed the general & technological bac.
- 93% of its 28 candidates passed the general & technological bac in 2025, higher than at 15% of French lycées with the general & technological bac.
- The ministry publishes no value added for its general & technological bac.
- 68% of its 193 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 5% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- That is −3 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 3 fewer passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 82.8, less advantaged than at almost all of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- It counts in the School Grade of Kourou (every graded town within 5 km).
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25The social position index (IPS) sums up pupils’ family backgrounds from their parents’ occupations. Around 100 is typical; higher means more advantaged homes (from about 50 to 160). Shown, never graded.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Élie Castor is marked.
Pass rate 93%
Higher than at 21% of them.
Each bar counts France’s 1,874 lycées with the vocational bac with published 2025 results; Élie Castor is marked.
Pass rate 68%
Higher than at 6% of them.
Value added −3 pts
Higher than at 36% 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 French Guiana’s lycées
2025The 12 lycées with the general & technological bac in French Guiana: 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. Élie Castor isn’t among them: only schools with a published value added are compared.
Show as a table
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée polyvalent Lumina Sophie | 75.8 | 86% | +10 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Léopold Elfort | 83.6 | 90% | +7 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Bertène Juminer | 81.8 | 88% | +6 pts |
| Lycée Félix Éboué | 84.2 | 88% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Raymond Tarcy | 83.2 | 84% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Gaston Monnerville | 92.4 | 90% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Léon Gontran Damas | 91.4 | 88% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Melkior et Garré | 94.4 | 89% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Sainte-Thérèse | 137.5 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Externat Saint-Joseph de Cluny | 123.7 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Georges Othily | 83 | 79% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Lama-Prévot | 117.6 | 93% | −1 pt |
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
The ministry publishes no value added for this school’s general & technological bac (usually because there are too few candidates), so only its pass rate is shown.
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 Élie Castor
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Kourou
Cost of living in Kourou →Houses €2,366/m² · Apartments €2,002/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
5 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Kourou, French Guiana
Questions about Lycée polyvalent Élie Castor
What is the IPS of Lycée polyvalent Élie Castor?
82.8 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 Élie Castor a good school?
In 2025, 93% of its 28 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). The ministry publishes no value added for it, so its results can’t be set against its pupils’ backgrounds.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée polyvalent Élie Castor?
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 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.