93% of 57 candidates at Collège Pierre de Castelnau passed the brevet in 2025, above the average French school (86.9%).
- That is about what pupils with these backgrounds usually get (±0 pts against the expected rate).
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 103.4, less advantaged than at 52% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It is in no town’s School Grade: that takes a published pass rate and value added.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Pierre de Castelnau is marked.
Pass rate 93%
Higher than at 71% of them.
Value added ±0 pts
Higher than at 56% 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 Landes’s collèges
2025Among the 42 collèges in Landes, Pierre de Castelnau sits near the middle on both counts: its pupils’ backgrounds are close to France’s average, and its pass rate is about what that predicts.
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 103.4, close to the French average of 105.2: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Pierre de Castelnau, 93% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 93%. The difference, ±0 pts, 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 Collège Pierre de Castelnau
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Map
Directions ↗Geaune, Landes
Questions about Collège Pierre de Castelnau
Is Collège Pierre de Castelnau a good school?
In 2025, 93% of its 57 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is ±0 pts: about what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Pierre de Castelnau?
A state collège takes the children of its catchment area (secteur), set by the département council; families can ask the académie for an exception (dérogation).
What is the IPS of Collège Pierre de Castelnau?
103.4 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 November 9, 2026.
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