Collège du Beffroi
Billom, Puy-de-Dôme
Schools around Billom C+ better than 42% of compared French towns
88% of 177 candidates at Collège du Beffroi passed the brevet in 2025, above the average French school (86.9%).
- That is −5 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 5 fewer passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 106.9, more advantaged than at 57% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It counts in the School Grade of 2 towns, Billom among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; du Beffroi is marked.
Pass rate 88%
Higher than at 52% of them.
Value added −5 pts
Higher than at 25% 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 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.
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 106.9, 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.
At du Beffroi, 88% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 93%. The difference, −5 pts, is its value added: its pupils pass less often than 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 Collège du Beffroi
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Billom
Cost of living in Billom →Houses €1,690/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
1 otherCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Billom, Puy-de-Dôme
Questions about Collège du Beffroi
Is Collège du Beffroi a good school?
In 2025, 88% of its 177 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is −5 pts: below what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège du Beffroi?
A state collège takes the children of its catchment area (secteur), set by the département council; families can ask the académie for an exception (dérogation).
What is the IPS of Collège du Beffroi?
106.9 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 9, 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.