Collège Joseph Sébastien Pons
Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales
Schools around Perpignan B+ better than 65% of compared French towns
Collège Joseph Sébastien Pons adds +10 pts to the pass rate expected from its pupils: more than 96% of French collèges.
- 78% of its 106 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, higher than at 17% of French collèges.
- That is +10 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 10 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 68.5, less advantaged than at almost all of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 5th of the 13 collèges within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 4 towns, Perpignan among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Joseph Sébastien Pons is marked.
Pass rate 78%
Higher than at 19% of them.
Value added +10 pts
Higher than at 97% 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 Pyrénées-Orientales’s collèges
2025The 35 collèges in Pyrénées-Orientales: 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 Marcel Pagnol | 66.5 | 81% | +19 pts |
| Collège Albert Camus | 73.4 | 78% | +14 pts |
| Collège Saint-Exupéry | 76.3 | 80% | +12 pts |
| Collège Madame de Sévigné | 76 | 84% | +11 pts |
| Collège Joseph Sébastien Pons | 68.5 | 78% | +10 pts |
| Collège privé Notre-Dame-des-Anges | 102.8 | 98% | +8 pts |
| Collège François Mitterrand | 107 | 100% | +8 pts |
| Collège Jean Amade | 101.9 | 94% | +6 pts |
| Collège Jean Macé | 88.4 | 84% | +5 pts |
| Collège privé Jeanne d'Arc | 129.6 | 100% | +5 pts |
| Collège Pierre Moreto | 102.9 | 93% | +5 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Louis de Gonzague | 123.7 | 100% | +4 pts |
| Collège privé La Salle Saint-Jean | 124.9 | 97% | +4 pts |
| Collège Gustave Violet | 97.5 | 90% | +3 pts |
| Collège Pierre Fouché | 97.6 | 92% | +2 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Pierre de la Mer | 127.9 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Collège Jean Moulin | 94.3 | 84% | +1 pt |
| Collège Jean Moulin | 89.7 | 85% | +1 pt |
| Collège de la Côte Vermeille | 97.9 | 90% | +1 pt |
| Collège Christian Bourquin | 98 | 88% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Cerdanya | 110.8 | 90% | −1 pt |
| Collège climatique et sportif Pierre de Coubertin | 117.8 | 94% | −1 pt |
| Collège Jean Rous | 87.3 | 76% | −1 pt |
| Collège Pau Casals | 105.5 | 87% | −2 pts |
| Collège Pierre Mendès France | 108.5 | 88% | −2 pts |
| Collège Jean Mermoz | 94.3 | 81% | −2 pts |
| Collège des Albères | 96.2 | 83% | −3 pts |
| Collège la Garrigole | 78.8 | 60% | −3 pts |
| Collège Alice et Jean Olibo | 103.2 | 80% | −3 pts |
| Collège Irène Joliot-Curie | 101.2 | 88% | −4 pts |
| Collège Paul Langevin | 96.7 | 77% | −5 pts |
| Collège Joffre | 91.1 | 77% | −6 pts |
| Collège le Riberal | 101.5 | 80% | −6 pts |
| Collège Jules Verne | 105.3 | 81% | −6 pts |
| Collège la Côte Radieuse | 101.7 | 80% | −7 pts |
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.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Joseph Sébastien Pons, 78% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 68%. The difference, +10 pts, is its value added: the school does more for its pupils than the pass rate alone shows.
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 Joseph Sébastien Pons
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Perpignan
Cost of living in Perpignan →Houses €2,167/m² · Apartments €1,500/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
21 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales
Questions about Collège Joseph Sébastien Pons
Is Collège Joseph Sébastien Pons a good school?
In 2025, 78% of its 106 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +10 pts: above what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Joseph Sébastien Pons?
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 Joseph Sébastien Pons?
68.5 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 8, 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.