Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
5 collèges and 3 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Auchel. The brevet pass rate near Auchel is 83.7%, below both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (86.1%) and compared French towns (87.5%). Auchel grades A− for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #35 of 123 in Pas-de-Calais. 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 Auchel, the lycées do better than those of 88% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 60%. 93% passed the general and technological bac (+2 pts against the expected rate), and 83.7% the brevet (+3.5 pts). School Grade ↓
91% of 76 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Fréderic Joliot Curie in 2025, 13 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. 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 Auchel; the collèges hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Auchel with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 5 collèges (387 candidates) and 3 lycées (398). 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 5 schools here, 2 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 0 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Fréderic Joliot CurieBrevet · Public | 84 | 91% | +13 pts |
| Collège Henri WallonBrevet · Public | 80.3 | 84% | +6 pts |
| Collège SévignéBrevet · Public | 76.1 | 76% | +1 pt |
| Collège LavoisierBrevet · Public | 83.3 | 80% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Émile ZolaBrevet · Public | 86.5 | 87% | −1 pt |
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. 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auchel 5 collèges · 3 lycées | A− | 84% | 92% |
| Cauchy-à-la-Tour 5 collèges · 2 lycées · 0.9 mi | B | 84% | 90% |
| Marles-les-Mines 7 collèges · 5 lycées · 1.3 mi | B | 84% | 89% |
| Calonne-Ricouart 7 collèges · 5 lycées · 1.5 mi | B | 84% | 89% |
| Burbure 5 collèges · 3 lycées · 1.9 mi | B | 82% | 94% |
| Allouagne 5 collèges · 4 lycées · 2.4 mi | B | 82% | 94% |
| Lapugnoy 5 collèges · 5 lycées · 2.9 mi | C+ | 83% | 89% |
Auchel’s schools are graded at least as well as any neighbor’s. Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade A−, better than those around 77% of compared French towns and #35 of 123 in Pas-de-Calais. In 2025, 83.7% of the 387 candidates at the five collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+3.5 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 91.7% of 398 candidates passed the bac (+5.9 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Fréderic Joliot Curie (public, 1.6 mi): 91% of 76 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +13 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 des travaux publics Jean Bertin (public, 2.7 mi): 94% of 158 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, +9 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. Auchel 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 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.