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Photo: Jaap Rozema · CC BY-SA 4.0On this, Douchy-les-Mines is below both Nord’s towns (85.9%) and compared French towns (87.5%). 8 collèges and 5 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Douchy-les-Mines. Douchy-les-Mines grades D for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #177 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).
87% of 99 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Félicien Joly in 2025, 16 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 69.9 at Collège Turgot to 98.7 at Collège Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 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 Douchy-les-Mines with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 8 collèges (744 candidates) and 5 lycées (662). 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 8 schools here, 2 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 6 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Félicien JolyBrevet · Public | 80.3 | 87% | +16 pts |
| Collège TurgotBrevet · Public | 69.9 | 69% | +7 pts |
| Collège VillarsBrevet · Public | 73 | 62% | −2 pts |
| Collège Jean-Jacques RousseauBrevet · Public | 98.7 | 89% | −3 pts |
| Collège BayardBrevet · Public | 72.9 | 67% | −4 pts |
| Collège Jean-Paul IIBrevet · Private | 90.8 | 75% | −5 pts |
| Collège VoltaireBrevet · Public | 75.3 | 67% | −8 pts |
| Collège Émile LittréBrevet · Public | 83.3 | 67% | −9 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. 8 collèges and 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douchy-les-Mines 8 collèges · 5 lycées | D | 74% | 85% |
| Neuville-sur-Escaut 8 collèges · 3 lycées · 1.7 mi | C− | 71% | 87% |
| Denain 7 collèges · 5 lycées · 1.7 mi | D | 70% | 85% |
| Lourches 7 collèges · 5 lycées · 1.8 mi | D | 70% | 85% |
| Thiant 6 collèges · 5 lycées · 2.5 mi | D | 73% | 82% |
| Rœulx 8 collèges · 3 lycées · 2.6 mi | C− | 71% | 87% |
| Haspres 1 collège · 0 lycées · 3.1 mi | D− | 67% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Neuville-sur-Escaut has the best-graded schools nearby (C−). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade D, better than those around 15% of compared French towns and #177 of 195 in Nord. In 2025, 73.5% of the 744 candidates at the eight collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−0.9 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 85.4% of 662 candidates passed the bac (as expected).
Against the expected rate, Collège Félicien Joly (public, 2.9 mi): 87% of 99 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +16 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 Jean-Paul II (private, 1.5 mi): 93% of 83 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, +7 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. Douchy-les-Mines has 9 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.