Collège Barral
Castres, Tarn
Schools around Castres C+ better than 44% of compared French towns
Collège Barral has the best value added of the 5 collèges within 5 km: 99% passed the brevet in 2025.
- 99% of its 140 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, higher than at 90% of French collèges.
- That is +3 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 3 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 122.3, more advantaged than at 84% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 1st of the 5 collèges within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 2 towns, Castres among them (every graded town within 5 km).
- A private school under contract with the state: it follows the national curriculum and sets its own admissions.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 6,196 collèges with published 2025 results; Barral is marked.
Pass rate 99%
Higher than at 94% of them.
Value added +3 pts
Higher than at 78% 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 Tarn’s collèges
2025The 38 collèges in Tarn: 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 Alain Fournier | 101.3 | 98% | +8 pts |
| Collège Bon Sauveur | 124.8 | 100% | +7 pts |
| Collège Eustache de Beaumarchais | 103.9 | 95% | +7 pts |
| Collège Victor Hugo | 89.2 | 94% | +6 pts |
| Collège Saint-Jean | 110.6 | 88% | +6 pts |
| Collège Les Portanelles | 111.3 | 99% | +5 pts |
| Collège Saint-Dominique | 108.4 | 95% | +4 pts |
| Collège Sainte-Marie | 126.2 | 100% | +3 pts |
| Collège Barral | 122.3 | 99% | +3 pts |
| Collège Notre-Dame | 111.4 | 96% | +3 pts |
| Collège de la Montagne noire | 103.6 | 94% | +2 pts |
| Collège Jeanne d'Arc | 110.1 | 97% | +2 pts |
| Collège du Val Cérou | 108 | 92% | +1 pt |
| Collège du Montalet | 91.4 | 80% | +1 pt |
| Collège Pierre Suc | 121.9 | 95% | +1 pt |
| Collège Augustin Malroux | 98.7 | 87% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Albert Camus | 105.5 | 90% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph de l'Apparition | 119.2 | 93% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Renée TAILLEFER | 106.8 | 89% | −1 pt |
| Collège Louis Pasteur | 91.1 | 78% | −1 pt |
| Collège Jacques Durand | 104.9 | 88% | −1 pt |
| Collège Gambetta | 117.9 | 94% | −2 pts |
| Collège Bellevue | 103.7 | 89% | −3 pts |
| Collège La catalanié | 99.5 | 86% | −3 pts |
| Collège Thomas Pesquet | 82.9 | 79% | −4 pts |
| Collège Les Clauzades | 112.2 | 89% | −4 pts |
| Collège Puységur | 123.9 | 88% | −4 pts |
| Collège Aristide Bruant | 108.3 | 88% | −5 pts |
| Collège Jean-Louis Étienne | 88.9 | 76% | −5 pts |
| Collège Louisa Paulin | 102.9 | 87% | −5 pts |
| Collège René Cassin | 108.9 | 89% | −5 pts |
| Collège Jean Jaurès | 107.1 | 84% | −6 pts |
| Collège Jean-Marie Gustave LE CLEZIO | 118.6 | 88% | −6 pts |
| Collège Marcel Pagnol | 90.5 | 74% | −6 pts |
| Collège du Saut de Sabo | 103.5 | 82% | −6 pts |
| Collège Jean Jaurès | 95.2 | 79% | −8 pts |
| Collège Madeleine Cros | 104.2 | 82% | −9 pts |
| Collège Jean Monnet | 81.5 | 72% | −12 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 Barral, 99% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 96%. The difference, +3 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 Barral
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Castres
Cost of living in Castres →Houses €1,602/m² · Apartments €1,721/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
12 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Castres, Tarn
Questions about Collège Barral
Is Collège Barral a good school?
In 2025, 99% of its 140 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +3 pts: above what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Barral?
It is a private school under contract with the state: it admits pupils itself, so ask the school.
What is the IPS of Collège Barral?
122.3 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 4, 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.