Lycée Auguste Béhal
Lens, Pas-de-Calais
Schools around Lens C− better than 23% of compared French towns
Lycée Auguste Béhal teaches pupils from less advantaged homes than at 97% of French lycées with the general & technological bac (IPS 88.2), and 91% passed the general & technological bac.
- 91% of its 208 candidates passed the general & technological bac in 2025, higher than at 10% of French lycées with the general & technological bac.
- That is about what pupils with these backgrounds usually get (−1 pt against the expected rate).
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 88.2, less advantaged than at 97% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 3rd of the 7 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 11 towns, Lens among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25The social position index (IPS) sums up pupils’ family backgrounds from their parents’ occupations. Around 100 is typical; higher means more advantaged homes (from about 50 to 160). Shown, never graded.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Auguste Béhal is marked.
Pass rate 91%
Higher than at 13% of them.
Value added −1 pt
Higher than at 38% of them: the shaded bars.
One year of results: the ministry’s file has the 2025 session only. With under 30 candidates, one pupil moves the rate several points.
Side by side with Pas-de-Calais’s lycées
2025The 41 lycées with the general & technological bac in Pas-de-Calais: further right, more advantaged pupils; higher, more passed. Backgrounds explain much of the spread, which is why value added, the colour, is the fairer comparison.
Show as a table
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée polyvalent Léo Lagrange | 93.3 | 98% | +5 pts |
| Lycée Diderot | 99.8 | 98% | +4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Saint-Denis | 113.4 | 100% | +3 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Lavoisier | 88.8 | 93% | +2 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique André Malraux | 103.1 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Édouard Branly | 103 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Mariette | 107 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Anatole France | 107.7 | 99% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent d'Artois | 100.7 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Giraux Sannier | 105.2 | 99% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Voltaire | 109.8 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Vauban | 109.2 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Gambetta Carnot | 112.2 | 97% | +1 pt |
| Lycée privé Nazareth Haffreingue | 133.5 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique Saint-Pierre | 122.9 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Condorcet | 89.6 | 94% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent privé Saint-Paul | 126.2 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée général La Malassise | 140.5 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique Blaise Pascal | 106 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique privé Sainte Austreberthe | 128.1 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent privé et campus Saint-Joseph | 110.1 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Albert Châtelet | 108.1 | 97% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Robespierre | 122 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Ensemble Baudimont | 133.5 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Louis Blaringhem | 118.5 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Marguerite Yourcenar | 101.2 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Carnot | 98.5 | 94% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Alexandre Ribot | 108 | 97% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Guy Mollet | 107.1 | 93% | −1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Jan Lavezzari | 106 | 95% | −1 pt |
| Lycée général privé Saint-Vaast-Saint-Dominique | 131.9 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Léonard de Vinci | 104.2 | 95% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Auguste Béhal | 88.2 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Eugène Woillez | 107.5 | 96% | −1 pt |
| Lycée général Notre-Dame de Sion | 118.5 | 97% | −1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique Sophie Berthelot | 103.1 | 94% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Fernand Darchicourt | 98.9 | 92% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Pablo Picasso | 86 | 88% | −3 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Pierre de Coubertin | 109 | 94% | −3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Louis Pasteur | 95.2 | 92% | −3 pts |
| Lycée Henri Darras | 98.3 | 89% | −4 pts |
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Auguste Béhal, 91% of candidates passed the general & technological bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 92%. The difference, −1 pt, is its value added: its pupils do about as well as similar pupils elsewhere.
A school with advantaged pupils passes nearly everyone, whatever it does; one with disadvantaged pupils can teach very well and still pass fewer. Value added takes the pupils out of the comparison. Near 100% the measure has little room: a school expected to pass 99% can’t show much above it.
French schools get no letter of their own: the ministry’s value added is the fairer measure, shown as it is. A town’s School Grade blends the pass rates and value added of every collège and lycée within 5 km of it.
Living near Lycée Auguste Béhal
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Lens
Cost of living in Lens →Houses €1,381/m² · Apartments €1,620/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
17 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗
Lens, Pas-de-Calais
Questions about Lycée Auguste Béhal
What is the IPS of Lycée Auguste Béhal?
88.2 in 2024–25. The social position index sums up pupils’ family backgrounds; around 100 is typical. TownRatings shows it for context and never grades it.
Is Lycée Auguste Béhal a good school?
In 2025, 91% of its 208 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is −1 pt: about what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée Auguste Béhal?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
Sources: Ministry of Education (DEPP), value added of collèges (IVAC) and lycées (IVAL), 2025 session · DEPP, social position index (IPS), 2024–25 · Ministry of Education, school directory (annuaire de l’éducation) · DVF property sales. All under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab). Updated November 4, 2026.
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.