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Near Rive-de-Gier, 90.9% of lycée candidates passed the bac, below both Loire’s towns (93.4%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 4 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Rive-de-Gier. Rive-de-Gier grades C+ for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #43 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 Rive-de-Gier, the lycées do better than those of 12% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 71%. 94% passed the general and technological bac (−3 pts against the expected rate), and 90.1% the brevet (+1.5 pts). School Grade ↓
91% of 99 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Notre-Dame des Collines in 2025, 9 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 4 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 ↓
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 Rive-de-Gier; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Rive-de-Gier with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 4 collèges (489 candidates) and 2 lycées (369). 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 4 schools here, 2 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 1 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Notre-Dame des CollinesBrevet · Private | 103.6 | 91% | +9 pts |
| Collège François TruffautBrevet · Public | 102.1 | 93% | +2 pts |
| Collège Louise MichelBrevet · Public | 93.8 | 89% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Charles ExbrayatBrevet · Public | 102.2 | 87% | −3 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; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rive-de-Gier 4 collèges · 2 lycées | C+ | 90% | 91% |
| Saint-Martin-la-Plaine 3 collèges · 2 lycées · 1.3 mi | B− | 91% | 91% |
| Genilac 4 collèges · 2 lycées · 1.6 mi | C+ | 90% | 91% |
| Lorette 4 collèges · 2 lycées · 1.8 mi | C+ | 90% | 91% |
| La Grand-Croix 6 collèges · 4 lycées · 2.9 mi | B | 91% | 93% |
| Saint-Paul-en-Jarez 5 collèges · 4 lycées · 3.5 mi | A− | 90% | 92% |
| L'Horme 5 collèges · 6 lycées · 4.3 mi | C+ | 89% | 89% |
Saint-Paul-en-Jarez has the best-graded schools nearby (A−). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade C+, better than those around 39% of compared French towns and #43 of 50 in Loire. In 2025, 90.1% of the 489 candidates at the four collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+1.5 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 90.9% of 369 candidates passed the bac (−3.6 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Notre-Dame des Collines (private, 0.2 mi): 91% of 99 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +9 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 Georges Brassens (public, 0.6 mi): 94% of 293 candidates passed the general and technological 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. Rive-de-Gier has 8 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 4, 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.