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The brevet pass rate near Saint-Paul-lès-Dax is 90.9%, below Landes’ towns (92.6%) but above compared French towns (87.5%). 5 collèges and 4 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax. Saint-Paul-lès-Dax grades B− for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #25 of 31 in Landes. 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).
97% of 156 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Danielle Mitterrand in 2025, 4 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 5 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 ↓
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 95.9 at Collège Jean Moulin to 127.1 at Collège privé Saint-Jacques de Compostelle. 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 Saint-Paul-lès-Dax; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 5 collèges (667 candidates) and 4 lycées (1,029). 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 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 8 schools here, 1 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 2 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Danielle MitterrandBrevet · Public | 106.4 | 97% | +4 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Jacques de CompostelleBrevet · Private | 127.1 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Haroun TazieffBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 113.1 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Jean MoulinBrevet · Public | 95.9 | 85% | −1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent de BordaBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 113.6 | 96% | −1 pt |
| Lycée privé Saint-Jacques de CompostelleBac, gen. & tech. · Private | 128.9 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Collège d'AlbretBrevet · Public | 99.5 | 89% | −2 pts |
| Collège Léonce Dussarrat dit Léon des LandesBrevet · Public | 101.4 | 85% | −5 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. 5 collèges and 4 lycées 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-Paul-lès-Dax 5 collèges · 4 lycées | B− | 91% | 94% |
| Dax 5 collèges · 3 lycées · 2 mi | B− | 91% | 94% |
| Narrosse 5 collèges · 3 lycées · 3.3 mi | B− | 91% | 94% |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul 1 collège · 2 lycées · 3.6 mi | A− | 97% | 92% |
| Pontonx-sur-l'Adour 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 7.6 mi | — | — | — |
| Magescq 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 8.3 mi | — | — | — |
| Saint-Geours-de-Maremne 1 collège · 0 lycées · 9 mi | A+ | 99% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Saint-Geours-de-Maremne has the best-graded schools nearby (A+). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade B−, better than those around 54% of compared French towns and #25 of 31 in Landes. In 2025, 90.9% of the 667 candidates at the five collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−0.7 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 94.1% of 1,029 candidates passed the bac (−1.8 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Danielle Mitterrand (public, 1.3 mi): 97% of 156 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +4 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 polyvalent Haroun Tazieff (public, 1 mi): 98% of 166 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, as expected 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. Saint-Paul-lès-Dax has 6 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.