Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
9 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Bully-les-Mines. The bac pass rate near Bully-les-Mines is 85.4%, below both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (90.7%) and compared French towns (92.9%). Bully-les-Mines grades B for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #56 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).
86% of 99 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Langevin-Wallon in 2025, 13 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 74.5 at Collège Langevin-Wallon to 119 at Collège Saint-François. 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 Bully-les-Mines with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 9 collèges (988 candidates) and 2 lycées (345). 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 9 schools here, 6 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 3 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Langevin-WallonBrevet · Public | 74.5 | 86% | +13 pts |
| Collège Blaise PascalBrevet · Public | 79.6 | 87% | +7 pts |
| Collège Saint-FrançoisBrevet · Private | 119 | 99% | +7 pts |
| Collège Descartes-MontaigneBrevet · Public | 88.8 | 93% | +6 pts |
| Collège Jean VilarBrevet · Public | 104.9 | 93% | +3 pts |
| Collège Paul ÉluardBrevet · Public | 88.6 | 79% | +3 pts |
| Collège Jean RostandBrevet · Public | 93.4 | 79% | −2 pts |
| Collège Anita ContiBrevet · Public | 94.3 | 82% | −7 pts |
| Collège Pierre et Marie CurieBrevet · Public | 79.1 | 67% | −10 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. 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bully-les-Mines 9 collèges · 2 lycées | B | 85% | 85% |
| Grenay 11 collèges · 5 lycées · 1 mi | C− | 83% | 84% |
| Mazingarbe 7 collèges · 2 lycées · 1.5 mi | B− | 79% | 91% |
| Aix-Noulette 8 collèges · 4 lycées · 1.6 mi | C | 86% | 86% |
| Sains-en-Gohelle 8 collèges · 2 lycées · 1.8 mi | B− | 81% | 91% |
| Liévin 12 collèges · 10 lycées · 2.7 mi | C | 83% | 88% |
| Vermelles 5 collèges · 0 lycées · 2.8 mi | A− | 84% | —1 |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Vermelles 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 61% of compared French towns and #56 of 123 in Pas-de-Calais. In 2025, 85.5% of the 988 candidates at the nine collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+2 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 85.4% of 345 candidates passed the bac (−0.6 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Langevin-Wallon (public, 0.7 mi): 86% of 99 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 polyvalent Léo Lagrange (public, 0.7 mi): 98% of 134 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. Bully-les-Mines 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.