Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Near Tarnos, 96.4% of lycée candidates passed the bac, above both Landes’ towns (94.2%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 4 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Tarnos. Tarnos grades B+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #16 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).
Around Tarnos, the lycées do better than those of 96% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 47%. 100% passed the general and technological bac (+3 pts against the expected rate), and 86.7% the brevet (−0.7 pts). School Grade ↓
100% of 46 candidates passed the brevet at Collège privé Estitxu Robles in 2025, 6 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 83.5 at Collège Albert Camus to 128.1 at Collège privé Estitxu Robles. 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 lycées lift Tarnos; the collèges hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Tarnos with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 4 collèges (356 candidates) and 2 lycées (255). 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 4 schools here, 2 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 2 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé Estitxu RoblesBrevet · Private | 128.1 | 100% | +6 pts |
| Collège Albert CamusBrevet · Public | 83.5 | 81% | +4 pts |
| Collège Langevin-WallonBrevet · Public | 111.8 | 86% | −5 pts |
| Collège Henri BarbusseBrevet · Public | 100 | 88% | −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. 4 collèges and 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarnos 4 collèges · 2 lycées | B+ | 87% | 96% |
| Boucau 8 collèges · 8 lycées · 1.2 mi | A− | 93% | 95% |
| Ondres 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 1.9 mi | A− | 91% | 91% |
| Bayonne 11 collèges · 10 lycées · 3.2 mi | A− | 94% | 97% |
| Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx 1 collège · 0 lycées · 3.8 mi | A− | 95% | —1 |
| Labenne 1 collège · 0 lycées · 4.1 mi | A | 96% | —1 |
| Anglet 12 collèges · 11 lycées · 4.2 mi | A− | 95% | 96% |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Labenne 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 75% of compared French towns and #16 of 31 in Landes. In 2025, 86.7% of the 356 candidates at the four collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−0.7 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 96.4% of 255 candidates passed the bac (+2.9 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège privé Estitxu Robles (private, 2.8 mi): 100% of 46 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +6 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 professionnel Ambroise Croizat (public, 1.3 mi): 91% of 89 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, +3 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. Tarnos has 12 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 October 30, 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.