Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
6 collèges and 6 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Le Chambon-Feugerolles. Near Le Chambon-Feugerolles, 89.3% of lycée candidates passed the bac, below both Loire’s towns (93.4%) and compared French towns (92.9%). Le Chambon-Feugerolles grades B− for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #36 of 50 in Loire. 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 Le Chambon-Feugerolles, the lycées do better than those of 31% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 74%. 93% passed the general and technological bac (−0.6 pts against the expected rate), and 88.1% the brevet (+3.4 pts). School Grade ↓
84% of 43 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Jules Vallès in 2025, 12 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
2 of the 7 collèges within 5 km are private, under contract with the state: they teach the national curriculum and their pupils sit the same brevet. They count 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 66.3 at Collège Jules Vallès to 109 at Collège Louis Grüner. 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 Le Chambon-Feugerolles; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Le Chambon-Feugerolles with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 6 collèges (472 candidates) and 6 lycées (533). 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. 1 school has results but no value added published, so it is listed, not graded. 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 6 schools here, 4 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 2 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jules VallèsBrevet · Public | 66.3 | 84% | +12 pts |
| Collège Saint-FirminBrevet · Private | 89 | 92% | +11 pts |
| Collège Massenet FourneyronBrevet · Public | 76.1 | 89% | +7 pts |
| Collège Louis GrünerBrevet · Public | 109 | 95% | +2 pts |
| Collège Waldeck RousseauBrevet · Public | 76.4 | 76% | −4 pts |
| Collège les BruneauxBrevet · Public | 79.9 | 81% | −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. 6 collèges and 6 lycées are in the grade; the others publish results without value added. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Chambon-Feugerolles 6 collèges · 6 lycées | B− | 88% | 89% |
| La Ricamarie 13 collèges · 15 lycées · 1.9 mi | B | 87% | 93% |
| Firminy 6 collèges · 6 lycées · 2 mi | B− | 89% | 89% |
| Roche-la-Molière 3 collèges · 4 lycées · 2.5 mi | B+ | 87% | 89% |
| Unieux 6 collèges · 6 lycées · 2.8 mi | B− | 89% | 89% |
| Fraisses 4 collèges · 5 lycées · 3.1 mi | C+ | 86% | 90% |
| Saint-Just-Malmont 1 collège · 0 lycées · 3.6 mi | D | 81% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Roche-la-Molière has the best-graded schools nearby (B+). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade B−, better than those around 53% of compared French towns and #36 of 50 in Loire. In 2025, 88.1% of the 472 candidates at the six collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+3.4 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 89.3% of 533 candidates passed the bac (−1 pt).
Against the expected rate, Collège Jules Vallès (public, 1.9 mi): 84% of 43 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +12 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 Albert Camus (public, 2.2 mi): 93% of 68 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, +6 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. Le Chambon-Feugerolles has 10 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.