Lycée Jacob Holtzer
Firminy, Loire
Schools around Firminy B− better than 51% of compared French towns
Lycée Jacob Holtzer teaches pupils from less advantaged homes than at 90% of French lycées with the general & technological bac (IPS 98.8), and 90% passed the general & technological bac.
- 90% of its 110 candidates passed the general & technological bac in 2025, higher than at 7% of French lycées with the general & technological 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 98.8, less advantaged than at 90% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 4th of the 6 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 6 towns, Firminy among them (every graded town within 5 km).
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.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Jacob Holtzer is marked.
Pass rate 90%
Higher than at 10% of them.
Value added −4 pts
Higher than at 8% 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’s lycées
2025The 28 lycées with the general & technological bac in Loire: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée polyvalent La Salle - Saint-Louis - Sainte-Barbe site Désiré Claude | 110.4 | 100% | +6 pts |
| Lycée Jean Puy | 114.4 | 100% | +3 pts |
| Cité scolaire Monnet Fourneyron - LEGT Jean Monnet | 105 | 98% | +3 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame | 107.8 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Pierre | 117.9 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent La Salésienne | 115.8 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée l'Astrée | 114.1 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée des Horizons | 120.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée du Forez | 113.6 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Albert Camus | 92.4 | 95% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Paul | 122.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Sainte-Marie - la Grand'Grange | 125.4 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Paul | 131.9 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée François Mauriac - Forez | 121.7 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée de Beauregard | 115.9 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Tézenas du Montcel | 114.1 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Michel | 131.1 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Paul Forez | 119.1 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Albert Thomas | 99.3 | 95% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Hippolyte Carnot | 113.2 | 97% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Simone Weil | 112 | 95% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jérémie de la Rue | 112.6 | 96% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Georges Brassens | 110.7 | 94% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Honoré d'Urfé | 99.2 | 91% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Étienne Mimard | 101.6 | 91% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Jacob Holtzer | 98.8 | 90% | −4 pts |
| Lycée Claude Fauriel | 102.9 | 93% | −4 pts |
| Lycée Claude Lebois | 101.4 | 89% | −5 pts |
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Jacob Holtzer, 90% of candidates passed the general & technological bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 94%. The difference, −4 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 Jacob Holtzer
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Firminy
Cost of living in Firminy →Houses €2,094/m² · Apartments €1,000/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
12 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Firminy, Loire
Questions about Lycée Jacob Holtzer
What is the IPS of Lycée Jacob Holtzer?
98.8 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.
Is Lycée Jacob Holtzer a good school?
In 2025, 90% of its 110 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is −4 pts: below what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée Jacob Holtzer?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
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 4, 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.