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Near Figeac, 95.6% of lycée candidates passed the bac, close to Lot’s towns (95.2%) and above compared French towns (92.9%). 2 collèges and 3 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Figeac. Figeac grades B for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #5 of 8 in Lot. 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).
1 of the 2 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 grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Figeac with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 2 collèges (200 candidates) and 3 lycées (342). 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 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. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Figeac 2 collèges · 3 lycées | B | 91% | 96% |
| Capdenac-Gare 1 collège · 0 lycées · 3.6 mi | A | 93% | —1 |
| Decazeville 1 collège · 2 lycées · 11.5 mi | D | 80% | 89% |
| Aubin 1 collège · 2 lycées · 12.3 mi | D | 80% | 89% |
| Villefranche-de-Rouergue 2 collèges · 3 lycées · 17.8 mi | A− | 90% | 97% |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Capdenac-Gare has the best-graded schools nearby (A). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade B, better than those around 58% of compared French towns and #5 of 8 in Lot. In 2025, 90.9% of the 200 candidates at the two collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−3.1 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 95.6% of 342 candidates passed the bac (as expected).
Against the expected rate, Collège Jeanne d'Arc (private, 0.3 mi): 96% of 72 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +2 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 J-F Champollion (public, 0.2 mi): 91% of 57 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, +1 pt 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. Figeac 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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