The collèges and lycées around Montpellier get better results than those around 68% of compared French towns
21 collèges and 14 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Montpellier. Montpellier grades B+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #36 of 80 in Hérault. 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).
What stands out · In brief
What stands out about the schools near Montpellier
Section d'enseignement général et technologique du Lycée agricole Frédéric Bazille - Agropolis beats its expected rate
99% of 153 candidates passed the general and technological bac at Section d'enseignement général et technologique du Lycée agricole Frédéric Bazille - Agropolis in 2025, 36 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
Private collèges
8 of the 25 collèges within 5 km are private, under contract with the state: they teach the national curriculum and their pupils sit the same brevet. They count in the grade like the public ones. Every school ↓
Very different intakes
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 69.5 at Collège les Escholiers de la Mosson to 149.5 at Collège privé Saint-Jean-Baptiste de la Salle. It is shown for context and never graded. Results and background ↓
Written from the Ministry of Education (DEPP) data on this page.
School Grade
Montpellier grades B+ for schools
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
Collèges: brevet pass rate and value added (87.4%, +0.6 pts)Better than 57% of compared French towns
Lycées: bac pass rate and value added (93.9%, +1.1 pts)Better than 72% of compared French towns
Each of the 25 collèges: % passing the brevet (2025)
Each of the 12 lycées: % passing the general and technological bac (2025)
Each of the 8 lycées: % passing the vocational bac (2025)
The average French school of its kind
2+ points above the expected rateClose to the expected rate2+ points belowNo value added published
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Montpellier with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 21 collèges (2,831 candidates) and 14 lycées (4,278). 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. 5 schools have results but no value added published, so they are listed, not graded. A school can count for several towns.
Results and background
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.
Collèges: brevet pass rate against social position index
Lycées: general and technological bac against social position index
2+ points above the expected rateClose to the expected rate2+ points belowNo value added published
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 31 schools here, 13 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 8 2 points or more below.
Show as a table
School
IPS
Pass rate
Value added (points)
Section d'enseignement général et technologique du Lycée agricole Frédéric Bazille - AgropolisBac, gen. & tech. · Public
Cité scolaire Françoise Combes (collège)Bac, gen. & tech. · Public
123.1
98%
+2 pts
Lycée Jean MonnetBac, gen. & tech. · Public
104.1
96%
+2 pts
Lycée polyvalent Georges FrêcheBac, gen. & tech. · Public
119.9
98%
+2 pts
Collège ClemenceauBrevet · Public
105.5
88%
+1 pt
Collège Arthur RimbaudBrevet · Public
71.7
71%
+1 pt
Collège Louis GermainBrevet · Public
112.9
93%
+1 pt
Lycée privé Notre-Dame de la MerciBac, gen. & tech. · Private
145.1
100%
+1 pt
Lycée privé polyvalent NeversBac, gen. & tech. · Private
143.1
100%
+1 pt
Collège Marcel PagnolBrevet · Public
83.1
79%
±0 pts
Collège privé Saint-RochBrevet · Private
114.6
94%
±0 pts
Lycée JoffreBac, gen. & tech. · Public
128.2
97%
±0 pts
Lycée polyvalent Jean MermozBac, gen. & tech. · Public
107
95%
±0 pts
Lycée Georges ClemenceauBac, gen. & tech. · Public
115.7
94%
−1 pt
Collège privé Saint-Jean-Baptiste de la SalleBrevet · Private
149.5
96%
−2 pts
Lycée polyvalent Jules GuesdeBac, gen. & tech. · Public
111.6
93%
−2 pts
Collège FontcarradeBrevet · Public
85.3
81%
−3 pts
Collège Croix d'ArgentBrevet · Public
86.7
75%
−3 pts
Collège Jeu de MailBrevet · Public
106.4
87%
−4 pts
Collège JoffreBrevet · Public
117.9
86%
−5 pts
Collège les AiguerellesBrevet · Public
95.7
80%
−5 pts
Collège Gérard PhilipeBrevet · Public
79.5
59%
−11 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.
Map
The schools within 5 km of Montpellier
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.
CollègeLycéePrimary school in MontpellierSize: candidates2+ points above the expected rateClose to the expected rate2+ points belowNo value added published
Points: the Ministry of Education’s school directory.
The schools
25 collèges and 15 lycées within 5 km of Montpellier
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. 21 collèges and 14 lycées are in the grade; the others publish results without value added. Distances from the town’s point.
Collèges25 · ages 11 to 15, brevet · best value added first
Primary schools in Montpellier127 · no results published by school
Ecole élémentaire Jeanne d'Arc
Primary school · Public · 0.2 mi
Ecole maternelle Chaptal
Primary school · Public · 0.2 mi
Ecole élémentaire Auguste Comte
Primary school · Public · 0.3 mi
Ecole primaire privée Ehpicentria
Primary school · Private · 0.4 mi
Ecole primaire privée Sainte Famille - Saint Charles
Primary school · Private · 0.4 mi
Ecole primaire privée Assomption Sainte Thérèse
Primary school · Private · 0.4 mi
Ecole élémentaire Paul Langevin
Primary school · Public · 0.4 mi
Ecole élémentaire Frédéric Bazille
Primary school · Public · 0.4 mi
Ecole primaire privée Saint François-Régis
Primary school · Private · 0.4 mi
Ecole primaire Morisot-Mozart
Primary school · Public · 0.4 mi
Ecole primaire privée la Calandreta Dau Clapàs
Primary school · Private · 0.5 mi
Ecole maternelle Goethe
Primary school · Public · 0.5 mi
Show all 127 primary schools
Ecole élémentaire Gambetta
Primary school · Public · 0.5 mi
Ecole élémentaire Madame de Sévigné
Primary school · Public · 0.5 mi
Ecole maternelle Francis Garnier
Primary school · Public · 0.5 mi
Ecole maternelle Pasteur
Primary school · Public · 0.6 mi
Ecole élémentaire Lamartine
Primary school · Public · 0.6 mi
Ecole d'Adaptation du Centre APAJ (Ecole élémentaire spécialisée privée)
Primary school · Private · 0.6 mi
Ecole maternelle Docteur Roux
Primary school · Public · 0.6 mi
Ecole primaire Pierre et Colette Soulages
Primary school · Public · 0.6 mi
Ecole Montessori Bilingue de Montpellier (Ecole primaire privée)
Primary school · Private · 0.7 mi
Ecole internationale Jules Guesde
Primary school · Public · 0.7 mi
Ecole primaire privée les Jonquilles - La Salle
Primary school · Private · 0.7 mi
Calandreta Dau Chivalet (Ecole primaire privé)
Primary school · Private · 0.7 mi
Ecole primaire Jeanne Moreau
Primary school · Public · 0.7 mi
Ecole élémentaire Condorcet
Primary school · Public · 0.7 mi
Ecole maternelle Alphonse Daudet
Primary school · Public · 0.8 mi
Ecole élémentaire Marie Curie
Primary school · Public · 0.8 mi
Ecole primaire privée Sainte Emilie
Primary school · Private · 0.8 mi
Ecole maternelle La Fontaine
Primary school · Public · 0.9 mi
Ecole primaire Winston Churchill
Primary school · Public · 0.9 mi
Ecole primaire Daviler-Kergomard
Primary school · Public · 0.9 mi
Ecole primaire Charles Baudelaire
Primary school · Public · 0.9 mi
Ecole élémentaire Sun Yat Sen
Primary school · Public · 1 mi
Ecole primaire Jules Isaac - Sophie Scholl
Primary school · Public · 1 mi
Ecole maternelle Maria Callas
Primary school · Public · 1 mi
Ecole primaire privée Sainte Odile
Primary school · Private · 1 mi
Ecole primaire Paul Bert Victor Hugo
Primary school · Public · 1.1 mi
Ecole maternelle Charlie Chaplin
Primary school · Public · 1.1 mi
Ecole élémentaire Voltaire
Primary school · Public · 1.1 mi
Ecole primaire Victor Schoelcher
Primary school · Public · 1.1 mi
Ecole élémentaire Eugène Pottier - Jean Sibelius
Primary school · Public · 1.1 mi
Ecole élémentaire Georges Simenon
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole maternelle Marcel Pagnol
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole maternelle Robert Surcouf
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole élémentaire Jules Verne
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole élémentaire Julie Daubié
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole maternelle Madeleine Brès
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole primaire privée de La Salle
Primary school · Private · 1.2 mi
Ecole primaire privée Saint François d'Assise
Primary school · Private · 1.2 mi
Ecole élémentaire Joseph Delteil
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole maternelle Jules Michelet
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole maternelle Geneviève Bon
Primary school · Public · 1.2 mi
Ecole primaire privée Notre Dame De Fatima
Primary school · Private · 1.2 mi
Ecole primaire privée Sainte Geneviève les Cévennes
Primary school · Private · 1.2 mi
Ecole élémentaire Jules Simon
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire Garibaldi
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire B. Spinoza
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole maternelle Florian
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire Louis Armstrong
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole maternelle Bertie Albrecht
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole maternelle Jeanne Deroin
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole maternelle Aristote
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole maternelle Simone Signoret
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire Jacques Brel
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire Périclès
Primary school · Public · 1.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire Sigmund Freud
Primary school · Public · 1.4 mi
Ecole primaire Emile Combes
Primary school · Public · 1.4 mi
Ecole maternelle Luis de Camoens
Primary school · Public · 1.4 mi
Ecole maternelle Vasco de Gama
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole élémentaire Jean Mermoz
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole élémentaire Alain Savary
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole maternelle Hélène Boucher
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole maternelle Ingrid Bergman
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole maternelle Aliénor d'Aquitaine
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole élémentaire Léo Malet
Primary school · Public · 1.5 mi
Ecole primaire privée Sainte Jeanne d'Arc
Primary school · Private · 1.5 mi
Ecole primaire Germaine Richier
Primary school · Public · 1.6 mi
Ecole élémentaire Jean Moulin
Primary school · Public · 1.6 mi
Ecole élémentaire Ronsard
Primary school · Public · 1.6 mi
Ecole primaire Olympe de Gouges
Primary school · Public · 1.6 mi
Ecole primaire privée les Anges Gardiens
Primary school · Private · 1.6 mi
Ecole primaire Jean Jaurès
Primary school · Public · 1.7 mi
Ecole maternelle Pape Carpentier
Primary school · Public · 1.7 mi
Ecole primaire Charles Dickens - Anne Frank
Primary school · Public · 1.8 mi
Ecole maternelle Louise Michel (Painlevé)
Primary school · Public · 1.8 mi
Ecole élémentaire Diderot
Primary school · Public · 1.8 mi
Ecole élémentaire Paul Painlevé
Primary school · Public · 1.8 mi
Ecole maternelle Jean Cocteau
Primary school · Public · 1.8 mi
Ecole primaire Ludwig Van Beethoven
Primary school · Public · 1.8 mi
Ecole maternelle Térésa
Primary school · Public · 1.9 mi
Ecole primaire Jean Zay
Primary school · Public · 1.9 mi
Ecole élémentaire Jules Ferry
Primary school · Public · 1.9 mi
Ecole primaire privée Eridan
Primary school · Private · 1.9 mi
Ecole primaire François Mitterrand
Primary school · Public · 2 mi
Ecole primaire Samuel Paty
Primary school · Public · 2.1 mi
Ecole maternelle Paul Eluard
Primary school · Public · 2.1 mi
Ecole élémentaire Jean Macé
Primary school · Public · 2.1 mi
Ecole élémentaire Docteur Calmette
Primary school · Public · 2.1 mi
Ecole maternelle Agrippa d'Aubigné
Primary school · Public · 2.2 mi
Ecole primaire privée bilingue Antonia
Primary school · Private · 2.2 mi
Ecole primaire privee Beit Yossef
Primary school · Private · 2.2 mi
Ecole primaire Chengdu
Primary school · Public · 2.2 mi
Ecole primaire Joan Miro
Primary school · Public · 2.3 mi
Ecole primaire Marguerite Yourcenar
Primary school · Public · 2.3 mi
Ecole maternelle Sarah Bernhardt
Primary school · Public · 2.3 mi
Ecole élémentaire Blaise Pascal
Primary school · Public · 2.3 mi
Ecole primaire Michel De L'Hospital
Primary school · Public · 2.3 mi
Ecole maternelle Pablo Neruda
Primary school · Public · 2.4 mi
Ecole élémentaire Antoine Balard
Primary school · Public · 2.4 mi
Ecole primaire André Malraux
Primary school · Public · 2.4 mi
Ecole élémentaire Simon Bolivar
Primary school · Public · 2.4 mi
Ecole primaire Benoïte Groult
Primary school · Public · 2.4 mi
Ecole maternelle Madeleine Renaud
Primary school · Public · 2.4 mi
Ecole primaire Hypatie
Primary school · Public · 2.4 mi
Ecole primaire Joyce-Senghor
Primary school · Public · 2.5 mi
Ecole primaire Hélène Mandroux - Yvette Roudy
Primary school · Public · 2.5 mi
Enjoy English School (Ecole primaire privée)
Primary school · Private · 2.5 mi
Ecole élémentaire Louisville
Primary school · Public · 2.5 mi
Ecole maternelle Martin Luther King
Primary school · Public · 2.6 mi
Ecole maternelle Cervantès
Primary school · Public · 2.6 mi
Ecole élémentaire Heidelberg
Primary school · Public · 2.6 mi
Ecole maternelle Averroes
Primary school · Public · 2.8 mi
Ecole élémentaire Akira Kurosawa
Primary school · Public · 2.9 mi
Ecole élémentaire Galilée
Primary school · Public · 2.9 mi
Ecole maternelle Indira Gandhi
Primary school · Public · 2.9 mi
Ecole maternelle Pablo Picasso
Primary school · Public · 3.1 mi
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.
Neighbors
Montpellier and the towns around it
Colored by School Grade. Brevet and bac: pass rates across each town’s schools within 5 km.
Clapiers has the best-graded schools nearby (B+). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Primary schools. Not graded: national tests (évaluations nationales) aren’t published school by school. The commune’s primary schools are listed.
They grade B+, better than those around 68% of compared French towns and #36 of 80 in Hérault. In 2025, 87.4% of the 2,831 candidates at the 21 collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+0.6 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 93.9% of 4,278 candidates passed the bac (+1.1 pts).
Which collège near Montpellier does best?
Against the expected rate, Collège Simone Veil (public, 0.9 mi): 86% of 167 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +12 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
Which lycée near Montpellier does best?
Against the expected rate, Section d'enseignement général et technologique du Lycée agricole Frédéric Bazille - Agropolis (public, 2.4 mi): 99% of 153 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, +36 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict.
How do children get a place at a collège near Montpellier?
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 Montpellier graded?
No: France doesn’t publish primary results school by school. Montpellier has 127 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 October 30, 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.