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Photo: © Pierre André · CC BY-SA 4.0At the collèges within 5 km of Nœux-les-Mines, 79.3% passed the brevet, below both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (86.1%) and compared French towns (87.5%). 6 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Nœux-les-Mines. Nœux-les-Mines grades C for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #110 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 Nœux-les-Mines, the lycées do better than those of 49% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 19%. 97% passed the general and technological bac (+1.1 pts against the expected rate), and 79.3% the brevet (−1.9 pts). School Grade ↓
87% of 77 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Blaise Pascal in 2025, 7 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 Nœux-les-Mines; the collèges hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Nœux-les-Mines with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 6 collèges (669 candidates) and 2 lycées (504). 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 6 schools here, 2 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 4 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Blaise PascalBrevet · Public | 79.6 | 87% | +7 pts |
| Collège Albert DebeyreBrevet · Public | 93.5 | 92% | +6 pts |
| Collège Jean RostandBrevet · Public | 93.4 | 79% | −2 pts |
| Collège Anatole FranceBrevet · Public | 84.7 | 75% | −3 pts |
| Collège Romain RollandBrevet · Public | 92.8 | 73% | −6 pts |
| Collège Jean MoulinBrevet · Public | 83.9 | 67% | −14 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nœux-les-Mines 6 collèges · 2 lycées | C | 79% | 90% |
| Labourse 8 collèges · 7 lycées · 1.8 mi | B | 87% | 91% |
| Hersin-Coupigny 6 collèges · 2 lycées · 1.9 mi | B− | 80% | 91% |
| Sains-en-Gohelle 8 collèges · 2 lycées · 2 mi | B− | 81% | 91% |
| Verquin 7 collèges · 7 lycées · 2.4 mi | B | 88% | 91% |
| Mazingarbe 7 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.5 mi | B− | 79% | 91% |
| Barlin 6 collèges · 1 lycée · 2.7 mi | C | 76% | 90% |
Labourse has the best-graded schools nearby (B). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade C, better than those around 29% of compared French towns and #110 of 123 in Pas-de-Calais. In 2025, 79.3% of the 669 candidates at the six collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−1.9 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 89.9% of 504 candidates passed the bac (−1.3 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Blaise Pascal (public, 2.4 mi): 87% of 77 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +7 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 d'Artois (public, 0.4 mi): 97% of 171 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, +2 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. Nœux-les-Mines has 6 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 9, 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.