Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The brevet pass rate near Somain is 80.8%, below both Nord’s towns (85.9%) and compared French towns (87.5%). 4 collèges and 3 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Somain. Somain grades B− for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #118 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).
Around Somain, the lycées do better than those of 71% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 21%. 97% passed the general and technological bac (+2.9 pts against the expected rate), and 80.8% the brevet (−2.1 pts). School Grade ↓
88% of 130 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Louis Pasteur in 2025, 5 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 4 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 ↓
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 82.2 at Collège Théodore Monod to 112.8 at Collège Notre-Dame de la Renaissance. 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 lycées lift Somain; the collèges hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Somain with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 4 collèges (600 candidates) and 3 lycées (586). 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 4 schools here, 1 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 2 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Louis PasteurBrevet · Public | 91.8 | 88% | +5 pts |
| Collège Notre-Dame de la RenaissanceBrevet · Private | 112.8 | 93% | +1 pt |
| Collège Victor HugoBrevet · Public | 84.9 | 75% | −5 pts |
| Collège Théodore MonodBrevet · Public | 82.2 | 66% | −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. 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somain 4 collèges · 3 lycées | B− | 81% | 89% |
| Fenain 5 collèges · 3 lycées · 1.1 mi | A− | 88% | 89% |
| Abscon 6 collèges · 3 lycées · 2.1 mi | B− | 80% | 89% |
| Aniche 5 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.3 mi | C | 78% | 87% |
| Hornaing 6 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.6 mi | A− | 83% | 96% |
| Auberchicourt 4 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.8 mi | C− | 72% | 87% |
| Pecquencourt 5 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.9 mi | B | 79% | 90% |
Fenain 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 45% of compared French towns and #118 of 195 in Nord. In 2025, 80.8% of the 600 candidates at the four collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−2.1 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 89.2% of 586 candidates passed the bac (+1.5 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Louis Pasteur (public, 0.8 mi): 88% of 130 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +5 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 Louis Pasteur (public, 0.8 mi): 97% of 305 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, +3 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. Somain 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 4, 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.