Collège Pierre Mendès France
Saint-André, Pyrénées-Orientales
Schools around Saint-André C better than 27% of compared French towns
88% of 130 candidates at Collège Pierre Mendès France passed the brevet in 2025, above the average French school (86.9%).
- That is −2 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 2 fewer passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 108.5, more advantaged than at 61% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- It counts in the School Grade of 6 towns, Saint-André among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Pierre Mendès France is marked.
Pass rate 88%
Higher than at 52% of them.
Value added −2 pts
Higher than at 43% 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 · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 108.5, 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 Pierre Mendès France, 88% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 90%. The difference, −2 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 Pierre Mendès France
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Saint-André
Cost of living in Saint-André →Houses €2,786/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 ↗Saint-André, Pyrénées-Orientales
Questions about Collège Pierre Mendès France
Is Collège Pierre Mendès France a good school?
In 2025, 88% of its 130 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is −2 pts: below what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Pierre Mendès France?
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 Pierre Mendès France?
108.5 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.