Lycée polyvalent Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Sète, Hérault
Schools around Sète B− better than 48% of compared French towns
96% of 431 candidates at Lycée polyvalent Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie passed the general & technological bac in 2025, level with the average French school (96.0%).
- That is about what pupils with these backgrounds usually get (+1 pt against the expected rate).
- 83% of its 110 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 39% 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 106.2, less advantaged than at 77% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 2nd of the 4 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of Sète (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie 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; Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie is marked.
Pass rate 83%
Higher than at 43% 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.
Side by side with Hérault’s lycées
2025The 30 lycées with the general & technological bac in Hérault: 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.
Show as a table
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| Section d'enseignement général et technologique du Lycée agricole Frédéric Bazille - Agropolis | 138.6 | 99% | +36 pts |
| Lycée Ferdinand Fabre | 109 | 99% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Henri IV | 96.7 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean Moulin | 98.2 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Joseph Vallot | 109.8 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Louis Feuillade | 105.3 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Jean Monnet | 104.1 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Georges Frêche | 119.9 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Cité scolaire Françoise Combes (collège) | 123.1 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Marc Bloch | 107.7 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Lycée privé polyvalent Saint-Joseph | 129.6 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Auguste Loubatières | 105.5 | 97% | +1 pt |
| Lycée privé La Trinité | 134.4 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Simone Veil | 120.4 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Champollion | 125.3 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée privé Notre-Dame de la Merci | 145.1 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée privé polyvalent Nevers | 143.1 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Jean Moulin | 114.1 | 97% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean Jaurès | 134.1 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Paul Valéry | 118.4 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie | 106.2 | 96% | +1 pt |
| Lycée privé polyvalent La Merci Littoral | 129.9 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Georges Pompidou | 131.4 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Victor Hugo | 124.7 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée privé polyvalent Saint-Joseph Pierre Rouge | 133.4 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Joffre | 128.2 | 97% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean Mermoz | 107 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Georges Clemenceau | 115.7 | 94% | −1 pt |
| Lycée René Gosse | 113.1 | 95% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jules Guesde | 111.6 | 93% | −2 pts |
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.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 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 Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Sète
Cost of living in Sète →Houses €4,742/m² · Apartments €3,362/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
7 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Sète, Hérault
Questions about Lycée polyvalent Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Is Lycée polyvalent Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie a good school?
In 2025, 96% of its 431 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 Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
What is the IPS of Lycée polyvalent Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie?
106.2 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.
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 October 30, 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.