Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The bac pass rate near Méry-sur-Oise is 83.5%, below both Val-d'Oise’s towns (87.0%) and compared French towns (92.9%). 6 collèges and 3 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Méry-sur-Oise. Méry-sur-Oise grades D for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #32 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).
Around Méry-sur-Oise, the lycées do better than those of 3% of compared French towns, the collèges better than 29%. 87% passed the general and technological bac (−4.8 pts against the expected rate), and 85.4% the brevet (−3.6 pts). School Grade ↓
87% of 99 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Le Petit Bois in 2025, 10 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
The collèges within 5 km take pupils from very different homes: the social position index runs from 98.2 at Collège Le Petit Bois to 123.3 at Collège Charles François Daubigny. It is shown for context and never graded. Results and background ↓
Written from the Ministry of Education (DEPP) data on this page.
Against every compared French town with a collège or lycée within 5 km.
The collèges lift Méry-sur-Oise; the lycées hold it back.
The grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Méry-sur-Oise with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 6 collèges (762 candidates) and 3 lycées (774). 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. A school can count for several towns.
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 6 schools here, 1 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 4 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Le Petit BoisBrevet · Public | 98.2 | 87% | +10 pts |
| Collège Les CouturesBrevet · Public | 123.1 | 92% | −1 pt |
| Collège Cécile SorelBrevet · Public | 121.8 | 94% | −2 pts |
| Collège Jacques-Yves CousteauBrevet · Public | 107.3 | 78% | −8 pts |
| Collège MaubuissonBrevet · Public | 110.6 | 81% | −8 pts |
| Collège Charles François DaubignyBrevet · Public | 123.3 | 82% | −9 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 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.
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. 6 collèges and 3 lycées are in the grade. Distances from the town’s point.
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.
Colored by School Grade. Brevet and bac: pass rates across each town’s schools within 5 km.
| Town | Schools | Brevet | Bac |
|---|---|---|---|
| Méry-sur-Oise 6 collèges · 3 lycées | D | 85% | 83% |
| Auvers-sur-Oise 8 collèges · 4 lycées · 1.1 mi | C− | 86% | 87% |
| Frépillon 8 collèges · 2 lycées · 1.3 mi | D | 84% | 86% |
| Mériel 7 collèges · 1 lycée · 1.7 mi | D | 87% | 91% |
| Bessancourt 10 collèges · 2 lycées · 2.1 mi | D | 84% | 86% |
| Pierrelaye 17 collèges · 8 lycées · 2.8 mi | D− | 79% | 85% |
| Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône 19 collèges · 12 lycées · 3 mi | D | 83% | 87% |
Auvers-sur-Oise has the best-graded schools nearby (C−). Towns within 10 km of each other share some of the same schools.
They grade D, better than those around 13% of compared French towns and #32 of 76 in Val-d'Oise. In 2025, 85.4% of the 762 candidates at the six collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (−3.6 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 83.5% of 774 candidates passed the bac (−3.9 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Le Petit Bois (public, 2.9 mi): 87% of 99 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +10 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict. On the raw pass rate alone the order can differ; value added is the fairer comparison.
Against the expected rate, Lycée polyvalent Jean Perrin (public, 2.1 mi): 92% of 197 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, −2 pts against the rate its pupils’ backgrounds predict.
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.
No: France doesn’t publish primary results school by school. Méry-sur-Oise has 8 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.