The collèges and lycées around Aspach-Michelbach outscore those around 59% of compared French towns
The bac pass rate near Aspach-Michelbach is 97.0%, above both Haut-Rhin’s towns (93.0%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 3 collèges and 1 lycée with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Aspach-Michelbach. Aspach-Michelbach grades B for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added. 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).
Aspach-Michelbach grades B for schools
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Aspach-Michelbach with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 3 collèges (306 candidates) and 1 lycée (228). 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.
Which schools do better than their pupils’ backgrounds suggest
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 2 2 points or more below.
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| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Charles WalchBrevet · Public | 93.7 | 90% | +1 pt |
| Collège Nathan KatzBrevet · Public | 115.7 | 93% | −2 pts |
| Collège Rémy FaeschBrevet · Public | 100.2 | 80% | −4 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 schools within 5 km of Aspach-Michelbach
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.
3 collèges and 1 lycée within 5 km of Aspach-Michelbach
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.
Aspach-Michelbach and the towns around it
Colored by School Grade. Brevet and bac: pass rates across each town’s schools within 5 km.
| Town | Schools | Brevet | Bac |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspach-Michelbach 3 collèges · 1 lycée | B | 89% | 97% |
| Vieux-Thann 3 collèges · 3 lycées · 2 mi | B | 88% | 89% |
| Thann 2 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.6 mi | B− | 86% | 92% |
| Cernay 4 collèges · 3 lycées · 3.2 mi | B | 88% | 92% |
| Wittelsheim 3 collèges · 2 lycées · 5.5 mi | B | 88% | 88% |
| Masevaux-Niederbruck 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 6.3 mi | A | 95% | 93% |
| Richwiller 9 collèges · 4 lycées · 6.9 mi | C− | 82% | 87% |
Masevaux-Niederbruck has the best-graded schools nearby (A). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The brevet. The diplôme national du brevet, taken at 15 at the end of collège: written exams in French, maths, history-geography, sciences and an oral, with the year’s coursework. We use the share of candidates who pass.
- The bac. The baccalauréat at 18: general and technological in most lycées, vocational in lycées professionnels. Each is compared only with schools of its own kind.
- Value added. The ministry’s own measure (IVAC for collèges, IVAL for lycées): a school’s pass rate minus the rate expected from its pupils’ social background and age. It is half of each school’s score in the grade.
- Social position index (IPS). A summary of pupils’ family backgrounds from parents’ occupations, about 100 for the average French pupil. Shown for context; never graded.
- Within 5 km. French families don’t pick a school by the town’s name: a collège serves a catchment set by the département, a lycée one set by the académie. So the grade uses the schools within 5 km of where the town’s residents live, and neighboring towns can share them.
- Primary schools. Not graded: national tests (évaluations nationales) aren’t published school by school. The commune’s primary schools are listed.
Questions about schools near Aspach-Michelbach
Are the schools near Aspach-Michelbach good?
They grade B, better than those around 59% of compared French towns. In 2025, 89.0% of the 306 candidates at the three collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−1.4 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 97.0% of 228 candidates passed the bac (as expected).
Which collège near Aspach-Michelbach does best?
Against the expected rate, Collège Charles Walch (public, 2.2 mi): 90% of 105 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +1 pt against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
How do children get a place at a collège near Aspach-Michelbach?
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.
Are primary schools in Aspach-Michelbach graded?
No: France doesn’t publish primary results school by school, and the school directory lists no primary school in Aspach-Michelbach.
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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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