Collège Saint-Joseph
Ambert, Puy-de-Dôme
Schools around Ambert A better than 88% of compared French towns
100% of candidates at Collège Saint-Joseph passed the brevet in 2025, more than at 94% of French collèges.
- The ministry publishes no value added for its brevet.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 108.6, more advantaged than at 61% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It is in no town’s School Grade: that takes a published pass rate and value added.
- A private school under contract with the state: it follows the national curriculum and sets its own admissions.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Saint-Joseph is marked.
Pass rate 100%
Higher than at almost all of them.
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 Puy-de-Dôme’s collèges
2025The 55 collèges in Puy-de-Dôme: 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. Saint-Joseph isn’t among them: only schools with a published value added are compared.
Show as a table
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jules Romains | 97.7 | 100% | +9 pts |
| Collège Pierre Mendès France | 105.9 | 97% | +7 pts |
| Collège Antoine Grimoald Monnet | 113.3 | 100% | +6 pts |
| Collège Notre-Dame | 106.6 | 91% | +5 pts |
| Collège de la Durolle | 90.8 | 98% | +5 pts |
| Collège Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc | 108.1 | 95% | +5 pts |
| Collège Sainte-Thècle | 129.2 | 100% | +4 pts |
| Collège Sainte Thérèse-Les Cordeliers | 110 | 98% | +4 pts |
| Collège La Charme | 67.8 | 74% | +3 pts |
| Collège du Pavin | 111.6 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Collège Sévigné Saint-Louis | 119.4 | 98% | +2 pts |
| Collège Louise Michel | 96.1 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Collège Anna Garcin-Mayade | 109.4 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Collège de Liziniat | 101.8 | 92% | +2 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 118 | 90% | +2 pts |
| Collège Henri Pourrat | 124.4 | 95% | +1 pt |
| Collège Saint-Alyre | 130.6 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Collège La Salle Franc Rosier | 110.3 | 95% | +1 pt |
| Collège René Cassin | 111.3 | 94% | +1 pt |
| Collège Jean Rostand | 123.1 | 96% | +1 pt |
| Collège Sainte-Marie | 128.4 | 95% | +1 pt |
| Collège Blaise Pascal | 100.4 | 91% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Fénelon | 136.4 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Bellime | 97.9 | 90% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Georges Onslow | 107.7 | 92% | ±0 pts |
| Collège de la Comté Henri Bertrand | 112.3 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Collège | 92.8 | 84% | −1 pt |
| Collège Molière | 117.4 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Collège Anatole France | 95.8 | 88% | −1 pt |
| Collège Condorcet | 98.5 | 84% | −1 pt |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 124.2 | 93% | −2 pts |
| Collège Teilhard de Chardin | 130.6 | 95% | −2 pts |
| Collège Mortaix | 111.9 | 90% | −2 pts |
| Collège Victor Hugo | 112.4 | 90% | −2 pts |
| Collège Champclaux | 119.5 | 91% | −3 pts |
| Collège Albert Camus | 74.4 | 72% | −3 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 120.5 | 90% | −3 pts |
| Collège Marc Bloch | 109.7 | 87% | −4 pts |
| Collège Joliot Curie | 115.6 | 88% | −5 pts |
| Collège du Beffroi | 106.9 | 88% | −5 pts |
| Collège Lucie Aubrac | 87.9 | 69% | −5 pts |
| Collège Jean Vilar | 106.7 | 90% | −5 pts |
| Collège Gordon Bennett | 113.2 | 89% | −5 pts |
| Collège Antoine Audembron | 87 | 75% | −5 pts |
| Collège Gérard Philipe | 71.4 | 66% | −6 pts |
| Collège Jeanne d'Arc | 102.6 | 82% | −6 pts |
| Collège Charles Baudelaire | 75.9 | 67% | −7 pts |
| Collège Roger Quilliot | 96.5 | 81% | −7 pts |
| Collège de Verrière | 103.4 | 85% | −7 pts |
| Collège Les Prés | 97.4 | 83% | −7 pts |
| Collège Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 96.5 | 81% | −7 pts |
| Collège Diderot | 111.9 | 85% | −9 pts |
| Collège La Ribeyre | 109 | 83% | −9 pts |
| Collège Alexandre Varenne | 91.6 | 80% | −9 pts |
| Collège Michel de l'Hospital | 113.1 | 80% | −12 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 108.6, close to the French average of 105.2: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
The ministry publishes no value added for this school’s brevet (usually because there are too few candidates), so only its pass rate is shown.
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 Collège Saint-Joseph
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Ambert
Cost of living in Ambert →Houses €1,175/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
2 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Ambert, Puy-de-Dôme
Questions about Collège Saint-Joseph
Is Collège Saint-Joseph a good school?
In 2025, 100% of its 24 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). The ministry publishes no value added for it, so its results can’t be set against its pupils’ backgrounds.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Saint-Joseph?
It is a private school under contract with the state: it admits pupils itself, so ask the school.
What is the IPS of Collège Saint-Joseph?
108.6 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.
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.