Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: photography taken by Christophe.Finot · CC BY-SA 3.04 collèges and 4 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Lons-le-Saunier. At the collèges within 5 km of Lons-le-Saunier, 90.9% passed the brevet, above both Jura’s towns (89.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%). Lons-le-Saunier grades C+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #8 of 11 in Jura. 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 Lons-le-Saunier, the lycées do better than those of 26% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 61%. 96% passed the general and technological bac (−2 pts against the expected rate), and 90.9% the brevet (−0.9 pts). School Grade ↓
100% of 46 candidates passed the brevet at Collège privé Sainte-Marie in 2025, 5 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 89.2 at Collège Saint-Exupéry to 115.7 at Collège privé Sainte-Marie. It is shown for context and never graded. 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 collèges lift Lons-le-Saunier; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Lons-le-Saunier with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 4 collèges (320 candidates) and 4 lycées (520). 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. 1 school has results but no value added published, so it is listed, not graded. A school can count for several towns.
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 4 schools here, 3 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 1 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé Sainte-MarieBrevet · Private | 115.7 | 100% | +5 pts |
| Collège Saint-ExupéryBrevet · Public | 89.2 | 93% | +3 pts |
| Collège Aristide BriandBrevet · Public | 107.7 | 96% | +3 pts |
| Collège Rouget-de-LisleBrevet · Public | 111.5 | 82% | −9 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 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. 4 collèges and 4 lycées are in the grade; the others publish results without value added. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lons-le-Saunier 4 collèges · 4 lycées | C+ | 91% | 93% |
| Montmorot 4 collèges · 4 lycées · 1.4 mi | C+ | 91% | 93% |
| Poligny 1 collège · 1 lycée · 13.2 mi | A | 92% | 98% |
| Louhans-Châteaurenaud 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 15.9 mi | A− | 93% | 93% |
| Champagnole 2 collèges · 2 lycées · 17.2 mi | A− | 92% | 96% |
Poligny has the best-graded schools nearby (A). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade C+, better than those around 42% of compared French towns and #8 of 11 in Jura. In 2025, 90.9% of the 320 candidates at the four collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−0.9 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 92.6% of 520 candidates passed the bac (−3.3 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège privé Sainte-Marie (private, 0.6 mi): 100% of 46 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +5 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
Against the expected rate, Lycée général et technologique Jean Michel (public, 0.5 mi): 96% of 390 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, −2 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict.
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. Lons-le-Saunier has 11 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 9, 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.