Collège Paul Barreau entered 28 candidates for the brevet in 2025; 86% passed (with so few, one pupil moves the rate several points).
- The ministry publishes no value added for its brevet.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 104.3, more advantaged than at 51% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It is in no town’s School Grade: that takes a published pass rate and value added.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Paul Barreau is marked.
Pass rate 86%
Higher than at 44% of them.
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 Nièvre’s collèges
2025The 16 collèges in Nièvre: 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. Paul Barreau isn’t among them: only schools with a published value added are compared.
Show as a table
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Victor Hugo | 106.8 | 88% | +5 pts |
| Collège Giroud de Villette | 92.4 | 87% | +3 pts |
| Collège Les Courlis | 88.9 | 83% | +3 pts |
| Collège Paul Langevin | 104.5 | 93% | +2 pts |
| Collège Claude Tillier | 97.2 | 89% | +1 pt |
| Collège Notre-Dame | 112.5 | 93% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Aumeunier-Michot | 101.1 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Collège Henri Wallon | 99.4 | 85% | −1 pt |
| Collège Jean Jaurès | 109.3 | 88% | −2 pts |
| Collège Les Loges | 87.1 | 79% | −2 pts |
| Collège Les Allières | 104.5 | 87% | −2 pts |
| Collège René Cassin | 103.3 | 85% | −7 pts |
| Collège Adam Billaut | 100.3 | 79% | −7 pts |
| Collège Louis Aragon | 100.9 | 85% | −8 pts |
| Collège Maurice Genevoix | 100.4 | 79% | −9 pts |
| Collège Fénelon | 116 | 82% | −10 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 104.3, close to the French average of 105.2: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
The ministry publishes no value added for this school’s brevet (usually because there are too few candidates), so only its pass rate is shown.
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 Collège Paul Barreau
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Lormes
Cost of living in Lormes →Houses €738/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Map
Directions ↗Lormes, Nièvre
Questions about Collège Paul Barreau
Is Collège Paul Barreau a good school?
In 2025, 86% of its 28 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). The ministry publishes no value added for it, so its results can’t be set against its pupils’ backgrounds.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Paul Barreau?
A state collège takes the children of its catchment area (secteur), set by the département council; families can ask the académie for an exception (dérogation).
What is the IPS of Collège Paul Barreau?
104.3 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.
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 9, 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.