Photo: Clicsouris · CC BY-SA 2.5Fewer pupils pass the brevet at the collèges near Garges-lès-Gonesse than in Val-d'Oise’s towns or compared French towns: 73.5%
Set beside other towns, Garges-lès-Gonesse comes out below both Val-d'Oise’s towns (82.7%) and compared French towns (87.5%). 42 collèges and 23 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Garges-lès-Gonesse. Garges-lès-Gonesse grades D for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #27 of 76 in Val-d'Oise. 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).
What stands out about the schools near Garges-lès-Gonesse
Collège Henri Barbusse beats its expected rate
74% of 109 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Henri Barbusse in 2025, 17 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
Very different intakes
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 65.8 at Collège Jean Lurçat to 124 at Collège ORT. It is shown for context and never graded. Results and background ↓
Written from the Ministry of Education (DEPP) data on this page.
Garges-lès-Gonesse grades D for schools
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Garges-lès-Gonesse with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 42 collèges (5,506 candidates) and 23 lycées (5,304). 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. 4 schools have results but no value added published, so they are listed, not graded. A school can count for several towns.
Which schools do better than their pupils’ backgrounds suggest
The line is the typical French school for each social position index; the band holds the middle two-thirds. A dot’s color is the ministry’s value added.
Schools whose pupils come from better-off homes usually get higher pass rates. The ministry’s value added already allows for that, and for pupils’ ages: of the 55 schools here, 29 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 14 2 points or more below.
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| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Henri BarbusseBrevet · Public | 75.6 | 74% | +17 pts |
| Collège Jean VilarBrevet · Public | 70.8 | 81% | +15 pts |
| Collège La CourtilleBrevet · Public | 71.7 | 77% | +14 pts |
| Collège René DescartesBrevet · Public | 77 | 78% | +14 pts |
| Collège Raymond PoincaréBrevet · Public | 79 | 81% | +13 pts |
| Collège Pablo NerudaBrevet · Public | 78.9 | 77% | +12 pts |
| Collège Saint-Vincent-de-PaulBrevet · Private | 100.2 | 97% | +12 pts |
| Collège Jean LurçatBrevet · Public | 65.8 | 76% | +11 pts |
| Collège Paul ÉluardBrevet · Public | 74.7 | 75% | +10 pts |
| Collège Anatole FranceBrevet · Public | 70.7 | 87% | +10 pts |
| Collège ChantereineBrevet · Public | 70.9 | 63% | +10 pts |
| Collège Jacqueline de RomillyBrevet · Public | 86.3 | 85% | +10 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Maurice UtrilloBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 79.8 | 92% | +10 pts |
| Collège Georges PolitzerBrevet · Public | 83.3 | 77% | +9 pts |
| Collège Lucie AubracBrevet · Public | 83.2 | 71% | +8 pts |
| Collège Didier DauratBrevet · Public | 79.6 | 79% | +8 pts |
| Lycée Germaine TillionBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 87.5 | 97% | +8 pts |
| Collège Pablo PicassoBrevet · Public | 76.9 | 77% | +7 pts |
| Collège Léon BlumBrevet · Public | 71.5 | 72% | +5 pts |
| Collège Pablo NerudaBrevet · Public | 78.9 | 67% | +4 pts |
| Annexe Oscar Romero du collège La Salle - Saint-Rosaire de SarcellesBrevet · Private | 101.5 | 98% | +4 pts |
| Lycée Paul ÉluardBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 83.6 | 84% | +4 pts |
| Collège Jean MoulinBrevet · Public | 86.5 | 79% | +3 pts |
| Collège Martin Luther KingBrevet · Public | 68.4 | 71% | +3 pts |
| Collège François TruffautBrevet · Public | 78.4 | 78% | +3 pts |
| Lycée Simone de BeauvoirBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 79.8 | 86% | +3 pts |
| Lycée général privé Sainte-MarieBac, gen. & tech. · Private | 104.9 | 100% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent privé ORTBac, gen. & tech. · Private | 123.3 | 100% | +3 pts |
| Lycée Joséphine BakerBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 79.7 | 94% | +2 pts |
| Collège Évariste GaloisBrevet · Public | 73.5 | 69% | +1 pt |
| Collège Joliot CurieBrevet · Public | 78.6 | 63% | +1 pt |
| Collège BarbaraBrevet · Public | 78.4 | 70% | +1 pt |
| Collège Gustave CourbetBrevet · Public | 80.3 | 67% | +1 pt |
| Collège Saint-DidierBrevet · Private | 106.5 | 93% | +1 pt |
| Lycée La Salle - Saint-RosaireBac, gen. & tech. · Private | 114.4 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Collège Saint-ExupéryBrevet · Public | 72.1 | 66% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Jacques BrelBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 81.6 | 85% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Henri WallonBrevet · Public | 68.1 | 61% | −1 pt |
| Collège Jean LurçatBrevet · Public | 79.9 | 59% | −1 pt |
| Lycée René CassinBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 89.9 | 87% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Jean-Jacques RousseauBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 82.5 | 84% | −1 pt |
| Collège L'Ardillière de NézantBrevet · Public | 96.2 | 77% | −2 pts |
| Collège Sainte-MarieBrevet · Private | 102.2 | 84% | −3 pts |
| Collège ORTBrevet · Private | 124 | 89% | −3 pts |
| Collège Nicolas CopernicBrevet · Public | 97.1 | 74% | −5 pts |
| Collège FabienBrevet · Public | 80.5 | 65% | −5 pts |
| Lycée Camille Saint-SaënsBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 105.5 | 87% | −5 pts |
| Collège Henri MatisseBrevet · Public | 77.4 | 61% | −7 pts |
| Collège VoltaireBrevet · Public | 78.9 | 62% | −8 pts |
| Lycée Maryse-CondéBac, gen. & tech. · Public | 78.5 | 70% | −8 pts |
| Collège Jean-Baptiste ClémentBrevet · Public | 89 | 63% | −9 pts |
| Collège Philippe AugusteBrevet · Public | 88 | 66% | −9 pts |
| Collège Victor HugoBrevet · Public | 83.6 | 59% | −10 pts |
| Collège Robert DoisneauBrevet · Public | 86.8 | 65% | −11 pts |
| Collège Maurice UtrilloBrevet · Public | 100.1 | 72% | −11 pts |
IPS: DEPP’s social position index, 2024–25, from parents’ occupations (France’s average pupil ≈ 100). It describes; it doesn’t grade. Value added: the school’s pass rate minus the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages.
The schools within 5 km of Garges-lès-Gonesse
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.
45 collèges and 24 lycées within 5 km of Garges-lès-Gonesse
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. 42 collèges and 23 lycées are in the grade; the others publish results without value added. Distances from the town’s point.
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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.
Garges-lès-Gonesse and the towns around it
Colored by School Grade. Brevet and bac: pass rates across each town’s schools within 5 km.
| Town | Schools | Brevet | Bac |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garges-lès-Gonesse 42 collèges · 23 lycées | D | 73% | 84% |
| Sarcelles 42 collèges · 19 lycées · 1.2 mi | D | 74% | 84% |
| Arnouville 27 collèges · 12 lycées · 1.4 mi | D | 73% | 83% |
| Stains 52 collèges · 33 lycées · 1.4 mi | C− | 74% | 85% |
| Dugny 45 collèges · 29 lycées · 1.6 mi | C | 74% | 85% |
| Gonesse 27 collèges · 12 lycées · 2 mi | D | 74% | 83% |
| Villiers-le-Bel 29 collèges · 10 lycées · 2.2 mi | D | 75% | 83% |
Dugny has the best-graded schools nearby (C). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The brevet. The diplôme national du brevet, taken at 15 at the end of collège: written exams in French, maths, history-geography, sciences and an oral, with the year’s coursework. We use the share of candidates who pass.
- The bac. The baccalauréat at 18: general and technological in most lycées, vocational in lycées professionnels. Each is compared only with schools of its own kind.
- Value added. The ministry’s own measure (IVAC for collèges, IVAL for lycées): a school’s pass rate minus the rate expected from its pupils’ social background and age. It is half of each school’s score in the grade.
- Social position index (IPS). A summary of pupils’ family backgrounds from parents’ occupations, about 100 for the average French pupil. Shown for context; never graded.
- Within 5 km. French families don’t pick a school by the town’s name: a collège serves a catchment set by the département, a lycée one set by the académie. So the grade uses the schools within 5 km of where the town’s residents live, and neighboring towns can share them.
- Primary schools. Not graded: national tests (évaluations nationales) aren’t published school by school. The commune’s primary schools are listed.
Questions about schools near Garges-lès-Gonesse
Are the schools near Garges-lès-Gonesse good?
They grade D, better than those around 15% of compared French towns and #27 of 76 in Val-d'Oise. In 2025, 73.5% of the 5,506 candidates at the 42 collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+2.8 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 83.8% of 5,304 candidates passed the bac (+1.5 pts).
Which collège near Garges-lès-Gonesse does best?
Against the expected rate, Collège Henri Barbusse (public, 2.4 mi): 74% of 109 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +17 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
Which lycée near Garges-lès-Gonesse does best?
Against the expected rate, Lycée Arthur Rimbaud (public, 0.3 mi): 84% of 184 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, +12 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict.
How do children get a place at a collège near Garges-lès-Gonesse?
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.
Are primary schools in Garges-lès-Gonesse graded?
No: France doesn’t publish primary results school by school. Garges-lès-Gonesse has 27 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 4, 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.