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Photo: Old59 · CC BY-SA 4.0Set beside other towns, Le Cateau-Cambrésis comes out below both Nord’s towns (85.9%) and compared French towns (87.5%). 1 collège and 1 lycée with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Le Cateau-Cambrésis. Le Cateau-Cambrésis grades D− for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #186 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 Le Cateau-Cambrésis with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 1 collège (149 candidates) and 1 lycée (126). 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. 1 collège and 1 lycée 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1 collège · 1 lycée | D− | 72% | 78% |
| Solesmes 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 5.9 mi | A | 94% | 100% |
| Caudry 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 6 mi | C+ | 77% | 89% |
| Landrecies 1 collège · 1 lycée · 6.6 mi | B | 83% | 97% |
| Bohain-en-Vermandois 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 9 mi | B+ | 78% | 97% |
| Avesnes-les-Aubert 1 collège · 0 lycées · 9.6 mi | A− | 88% | —1 |
| Le Quesnoy 1 collège · 1 lycée · 10.9 mi | C+ | 84% | 94% |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Solesmes has the best-graded schools nearby (A). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade D−, better than those around 4% of compared French towns and #186 of 195 in Nord. In 2025, 72.0% of the 149 candidates at the collège within 5 km passed the brevet (as expected against the expected rate). At the lycées, 78.1% of 126 candidates passed the bac (−7.6 pts).
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. Le Cateau-Cambrésis has 5 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.