Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The bac pass rate near Méru is 84.0%, below both Oise’s towns (89.7%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 3 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Méru. Méru grades D for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #39 of 55 in Oise. 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 Méru, the lycées do better than those of 1% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 32%. 89% passed the general and technological bac (−5 pts against the expected rate), and 84.3% the brevet (−2.1 pts). School Grade ↓
1 of the 3 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 88.1 at Collège Pierre Mendès France to 115.3 at Collège Immaculée Conception. 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 collèges lift Méru; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Méru with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 3 collèges (350 candidates) and 2 lycées (383). 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 3 schools here, 0 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 2 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Pierre Mendès FranceBrevet · Public | 88.1 | 81% | −1 pt |
| Collège Immaculée ConceptionBrevet · Private | 115.3 | 91% | −2 pts |
| Collège du ThelleBrevet · Public | 92.9 | 81% | −3 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. 3 collèges and 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Méru 3 collèges · 2 lycées | D | 84% | 84% |
| Andeville 4 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.2 mi | D | 84% | 84% |
| Bornel 1 collège · 0 lycées · 3.9 mi | D | 79% | —1 |
| Sainte-Geneviève 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 4.7 mi | B− | 87% | —1 |
| Neuilly-en-Thelle 1 collège · 0 lycées · 7 mi | C | 86% | —1 |
| Chambly 6 collèges · 1 lycée · 7 mi | D | 83% | 83% |
| Noailles 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 7.1 mi | B− | 87% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Sainte-Geneviève has the best-graded schools nearby (B−). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade D, better than those around 14% of compared French towns and #39 of 55 in Oise. In 2025, 84.3% of the 350 candidates at the three collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−2.1 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 84.0% of 383 candidates passed the bac (−6.6 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Pierre Mendès France (public, 0.5 mi): 81% of 99 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, Lycée Condorcet (public, 0.5 mi): 89% of 283 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, −5 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. Méru has 10 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 October 30, 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.