Lycée polyvalent Nicolas Appert
Orvault, Loire-Atlantique
Schools around Orvault B better than 64% of compared French towns
96% of 233 candidates at Lycée polyvalent Nicolas Appert passed the general & technological bac in 2025, level with the average French school (96.0%).
- That is −2 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 2 fewer passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- 88% of its 40 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 59% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- That is −4 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 4 fewer passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 131.3, more advantaged than at 81% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 9th of the 13 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 4 towns, Orvault among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Nicolas Appert is marked.
Pass rate 96%
Higher than at 44% of them.
Value added −2 pts
Higher than at 24% of them: the shaded bars.
Each bar counts France’s 1,874 lycées with the vocational bac with published 2025 results; Nicolas Appert is marked.
Pass rate 88%
Higher than at 64% of them.
Value added −4 pts
Higher than at 32% 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 Loire-Atlantique’s lycées
2025The 48 lycées with the general & technological bac in Loire-Atlantique: further right, more advantaged pupils; higher, more passed. Backgrounds explain much of the spread, which is why value added, the colour, is the fairer comparison.
Show as a table
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre éducatif nantais pour jeunes sportifs | 135.1 | 100% | +3 pts |
| Lycée privé Gabriel Deshayes | 112.1 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée des métiers Sainte-Anne | 120.6 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Joseph | 124.9 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Camille Claudel | 116.1 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves | 134.3 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique privé Charles Péguy | 129.9 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée privé la Mennais | 131.1 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Notre-Dame de Toutes Aides | 139.9 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Externat Chavagnes | 146.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Nelson Mandela | 121.2 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Martin | 128.8 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Caroline Aigle | 121.4 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Dominique | 134.4 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Louis | 135.3 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Notre Dame d'Espérance | 127.9 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-François d'Assise | 124.9 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Joseph Joubert - Émilien Maillard | 113.9 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Alcide d'Orbigny | 124.7 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Aimé Césaire | 119.4 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Grand Air | 131.4 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Gabriel Guist'hau | 147.3 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Joseph du Loquidy La Salle | 152.1 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique privé Saint-Stanislas | 145.2 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée La Perverie | 147.8 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Campus Talensac | 129.9 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique privé Saint-Félix - La Salle | 136.6 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Notre-Dame | 139.4 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Joseph | 115.2 | 97% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Joseph | 120.9 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Clemenceau | 136.6 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Livet | 126.9 | 96% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Blanche de Castille | 143.4 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Carcouet | 95.5 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Lycée La Herdrie | 129.7 | 97% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Jules Verne | 139.2 | 97% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Nicolas Appert | 131.3 | 96% | −2 pts |
| Lycée du Pays de Retz | 118.4 | 96% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Jean Perrin | 121.6 | 95% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Aristide Briand | 111.9 | 95% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Galilée | 118 | 95% | −3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Gaspard Monge - La Chauvinière | 128.2 | 94% | −3 pts |
| Lycée La Colinière | 119.3 | 93% | −3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Les Bourdonnières | 119.7 | 94% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Général et Technologique Jacques Prévert | 119.6 | 95% | −3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Guy Môquet - Étienne Lenoir | 102.6 | 91% | −4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Sacré-Coeur La Salle | 105.4 | 86% | −5 pts |
| Lycée Albert Camus | 101.6 | 85% | −8 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25The social position index (IPS) sums up pupils’ family backgrounds from their parents’ occupations. Around 100 is typical; higher means more advantaged homes (from about 50 to 160). Shown, never graded.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Nicolas Appert, 96% of candidates passed the general & technological bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 98%. The difference, −2 pts, is its value added: its pupils pass less often than 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 Lycée polyvalent Nicolas Appert
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Orvault
Cost of living in Orvault →Houses €3,500/m² · Apartments €2,802/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
28 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Orvault, Loire-Atlantique
Questions about Lycée polyvalent Nicolas Appert
Is Lycée polyvalent Nicolas Appert a good school?
In 2025, 96% of its 233 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is −2 pts: below what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée polyvalent Nicolas Appert?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
What is the IPS of Lycée polyvalent Nicolas Appert?
131.3 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.
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.