Lycée polyvalent Niépce Balleure
Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire
Schools around Chalon-sur-Saône B+ better than 66% of compared French towns
96% of 193 candidates at Lycée polyvalent Niépce Balleure passed the general & technological bac in 2025, level with the average French school (96.0%).
- 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.
- 86% of its 97 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 51% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- That is about what pupils with these backgrounds usually get (−1 pt against the expected rate).
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 116, less advantaged than at 51% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 6th of the 7 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 7 towns, Chalon-sur-Saône among them (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Niépce Balleure is marked.
Pass rate 96%
Higher than at 44% of them.
Value added −2 pts
Higher than at 24% of them: the shaded bars.
Each bar counts France’s 1,874 lycées with the vocational bac with published 2025 results; Niépce Balleure is marked.
Pass rate 86%
Higher than at 55% of them.
Value added −1 pt
Higher than at 48% 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 Saône-et-Loire’s lycées
2025The 18 lycées with the general & technological bac in Saône-et-Loire: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée polyvalent Hilaire de Chardonnet | 104.6 | 98% | +4 pts |
| Lycée privé polyvalent Saint-Charles | 117.2 | 99% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Julien Wittmer | 111.4 | 100% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Henri Vincenot | 106.7 | 99% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent privé Frédéric Ozanam | 127.7 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique privé Jeanne d'Arc | 122.8 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée général Pontus de Tyard | 128.1 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Lamartine | 107 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Henri Parriat | 104.4 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Gabriel Voisin | 119.3 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Mathias | 108.5 | 95% | −1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique La Prat's | 118.7 | 97% | −1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique Camille Claudel | 100.8 | 95% | −1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Bonaparte | 113.9 | 96% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Niépce Balleure | 116 | 96% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Émiland Gauthey | 112.3 | 93% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Léon Blum | 108.3 | 94% | −2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent René Cassin | 106.1 | 90% | −6 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 116, close to the French average of 117.8: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Niépce Balleure, 96% of candidates passed the general & technological bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 98%. 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 Lycée polyvalent Niépce Balleure
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Chalon-sur-Saône
Cost of living in Chalon-sur-Saône →Houses €1,943/m² · Apartments €1,379/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
14 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire
Questions about Lycée polyvalent Niépce Balleure
Is Lycée polyvalent Niépce Balleure a good school?
In 2025, 96% of its 193 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is −2 pts: below what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée polyvalent Niépce Balleure?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
What is the IPS of Lycée polyvalent Niépce Balleure?
116 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.