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Photo: Chatsam · CC BY-SA 3.0The bac pass rate near Aulnoye-Aymeries is 83.4%, below both Nord’s towns (90.4%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 2 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Aulnoye-Aymeries. Aulnoye-Aymeries grades C− for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #168 of 195 in Nord. 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).
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Aulnoye-Aymeries with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 2 collèges (238 candidates) and 2 lycées (193). 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 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aulnoye-Aymeries 2 collèges · 2 lycées | C− | 80% | 83% |
| Berlaimont 2 collèges · 2 lycées · 1.5 mi | C− | 80% | 83% |
| Hautmont 5 collèges · 2 lycées · 4.7 mi | D− | 67% | 72% |
| Louvroil 10 collèges · 5 lycées · 6.6 mi | D | 76% | 85% |
| Avesnes-sur-Helpe 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 6.7 mi | A | 89% | 95% |
| Bavay 1 collège · 1 lycée · 6.7 mi | B− | 84% | 98% |
| Maubeuge 8 collèges · 5 lycées · 7.6 mi | C− | 78% | 85% |
Avesnes-sur-Helpe 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 20% of compared French towns and #168 of 195 in Nord. In 2025, 79.6% of the 238 candidates at the two collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−2 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 83.4% of 193 candidates passed the bac (−2.2 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Félix del Marle (public, 0.3 mi): 78% of 160 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, −1 pt 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, Institution Sainte Jeanne d'Arc (private, 0.4 mi): 95% of 58 candidates passed the general and technological 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. Aulnoye-Aymeries 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 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.