Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Measured that way, Pont-du-Château is below both Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (92.5%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 2 collèges and 1 lycée with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Pont-du-Château. Pont-du-Château grades C for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #29 of 41 in Puy-de-Dôme. 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).
1 of the 2 collèges within 5 km is private, under contract with the state: it teaches the national curriculum and its pupils sit the same brevet. It counts in the grade like the public ones. Every school ↓
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 collèges lift Pont-du-Château; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Pont-du-Château with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 2 collèges (228 candidates) and 1 lycée (97). 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 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. 2 collèges and 1 lycée 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pont-du-Château 2 collèges · 1 lycée | C | 90% | 79% |
| Vertaizon 2 collèges · 1 lycée · 2.5 mi | C | 90% | 79% |
| Mur-sur-Allier 5 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.7 mi | C | 86% | 94% |
| Lempdes 3 collèges · 3 lycées · 3.2 mi | C− | 84% | 93% |
| Aulnat 7 collèges · 4 lycées · 3.8 mi | D | 81% | 87% |
| Cournon-d'Auvergne 4 collèges · 1 lycée · 4.9 mi | C+ | 87% | 97% |
| Gerzat 5 collèges · 2 lycées · 5.1 mi | D | 77% | 88% |
Cournon-d'Auvergne has the best-graded schools nearby (C+). 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 #29 of 41 in Puy-de-Dôme. In 2025, 90.0% of the 228 candidates at the two collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−2.4 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 79.0% of 97 candidates passed the bac (−5 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Mortaix (public, 0.7 mi): 90% of 148 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, −2 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
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. Pont-du-Château has 7 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.