Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Near Gien, 89.1% of lycée candidates passed the bac, below both Loiret’s towns (91.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 4 collèges and 3 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Gien. Gien grades C for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #33 of 48 in Loiret. 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).
96% of 67 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Ernest Bildstein in 2025, 7 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 ↓
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 76.6 at Collège Jean Mermoz to 120.8 at Collège privé Saint-François de Sales. 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 grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Gien with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 4 collèges (270 candidates) and 3 lycées (612). 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 Ernest BildsteinBrevet · Public | 87.4 | 96% | +7 pts |
| Collège Jean MermozBrevet · Public | 76.6 | 83% | +4 pts |
| Collège Les ClorisseauxBrevet · Public | 98.8 | 82% | −7 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-François de SalesBrevet · Private | 120.8 | 82% | −11 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 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gien 4 collèges · 3 lycées | C | 86% | 89% |
| Briare 1 collège · 0 lycées · 6 mi | D− | 71% | —1 |
| Ouzouer-sur-Loire 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 9 mi | — | — | — |
| Châtillon-sur-Loire 1 collège · 0 lycées · 9.2 mi | A | 95% | —1 |
| Nogent-sur-Vernisson 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 11.2 mi | — | — | — |
| Sully-sur-Loire 1 collège · 0 lycées · 13.2 mi | D− | 76% | —1 |
| Lorris 1 collège · 0 lycées · 14.2 mi | B | 91% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Châtillon-sur-Loire 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 29% of compared French towns and #33 of 48 in Loiret. In 2025, 85.7% of the 270 candidates at the four collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−1.8 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 89.1% of 612 candidates passed the bac (−1.6 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Ernest Bildstein (public, 1.4 mi): 96% of 67 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +7 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 Bernard Palissy (public, 0.4 mi): 95% of 358 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, as expected 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. Gien has 7 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.