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The bac pass rate near Saint-Claude is 83.3%, below both Jura’s towns (93.5%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 2 collèges and 1 lycée with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Saint-Claude. Saint-Claude grades C 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).
Around Saint-Claude, the lycées do better than those of 2% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 69%. 88% passed the general and technological bac (−4 pts against the expected rate), and 88.7% the brevet (+2.2 pts). School Grade ↓
97% of 67 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Saint-Oyend in 2025, 10 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 2 collèges within 5 km is private, under contract with the state: it teaches the national curriculum and its pupils sit the same brevet. It counts in the grade like the public ones. Every school ↓
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 Saint-Claude; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Saint-Claude with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 2 collèges (151 candidates) and 1 lycée (188). 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.
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. 2 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.
Colored by School Grade. Brevet and bac: pass rates across each town’s schools within 5 km.
| Town | Schools | Brevet | Bac |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Claude 2 collèges · 1 lycée | C | 89% | 83% |
| Gex 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 10.3 mi | A | 96% | 99% |
| Cessy 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 11.2 mi | A | 96% | 99% |
| Arbent 4 collèges · 1 lycée · 11.4 mi | A− | 85% | 93% |
| Hauts de Bienne 1 collège · 1 lycée · 11.6 mi | B | 89% | 94% |
| Les Rousses 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 11.7 mi | B− | 89% | 94% |
| Thoiry 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 12.1 mi | — | — | — |
Gex has the best-graded schools nearby (A).
They grade C, better than those around 32% of compared French towns. In 2025, 88.7% of the 151 candidates at the two collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+2.2 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 83.3% of 188 candidates passed the bac (−5.4 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Saint-Oyend (private, 0.3 mi): 97% of 67 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +10 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
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. Saint-Claude has 8 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 4, 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.