Collège Saint-Joseph
Challans, Vendée
Schools around Challans B better than 64% of compared French towns
Collège Saint-Joseph has the best value added of the 3 collèges within 5 km: 96% passed the brevet in 2025.
- 96% of its 265 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, higher than at 79% of French collèges.
- That is +2 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 2 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 110.2, more advantaged than at 65% of French collèges. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 1st of the 3 collèges within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of Challans (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; Saint-Joseph is marked.
Pass rate 96%
Higher than at 83% of them.
Value added +2 pts
Higher than at 72% 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 Vendée’s collèges
2025The 58 collèges in Vendée: 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 Saint-Paul | 100 | 98% | +8 pts |
| Collège Marais Poitevin | 101.1 | 93% | +6 pts |
| Collège Olivier Messiaen | 103.3 | 99% | +6 pts |
| Collège Pierre Garcie Ferrande | 104.5 | 96% | +6 pts |
| Collège Saint-Paul | 109.3 | 98% | +6 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Jean - Les Lauriers | 108.7 | 100% | +6 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 111.6 | 99% | +5 pts |
| Collège Jean Yole | 108.5 | 99% | +5 pts |
| Collège Saint-Jacques | 110.4 | 96% | +5 pts |
| Collège privé du Puy Chabot | 115.7 | 99% | +5 pts |
| Collège Saint-Sauveur | 105.5 | 95% | +5 pts |
| Collège André Tiraqueau | 93.6 | 93% | +4 pts |
| Collège Villebois Mareuil | 109.4 | 97% | +4 pts |
| Collège Saint-Jacques la Forêt | 107.7 | 98% | +4 pts |
| Collège Corentin Riou | 98.5 | 95% | +4 pts |
| Collège Saint-Gilles | 112.2 | 98% | +4 pts |
| Collège Saint-Martin | 116.8 | 95% | +3 pts |
| Collège Notre-Dame de l'Espérance | 110.3 | 95% | +3 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 95.4 | 95% | +3 pts |
| Collège Sainte-Marie | 108.2 | 96% | +3 pts |
| Collège Saint-Pierre | 113 | 98% | +3 pts |
| Collège Georges Clemenceau | 93.3 | 90% | +3 pts |
| Collège Sainte-Ursule | 105.2 | 97% | +3 pts |
| Collège Arnaud Beltrame | 94.1 | 86% | +3 pts |
| Collège Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 102 | 96% | +3 pts |
| Collège Notre-Dame de Bourgenay | 123.7 | 99% | +3 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 110.2 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph | 107.3 | 94% | +2 pts |
| Collège Saint-Nicolas | 103.5 | 96% | +2 pts |
| Collège Golfe des Pictons | 92.5 | 82% | +1 pt |
| Collège Jacques Laurent | 102.1 | 93% | +1 pt |
| Collège Saint-Louis | 129.8 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Collège Sainte-Marie | 111.2 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Richelieu | 114.5 | 94% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Sacré-Coeur | 122.4 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Collège de l'Anglée | 90.9 | 86% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Saint-Gabriel Saint-Michel | 116.7 | 95% | ±0 pts |
| Collège Jean Rostand | 93.3 | 89% | −1 pt |
| Collège Jean Monnet | 108.1 | 91% | −1 pt |
| Collège Jules Ferry | 104.6 | 92% | −2 pts |
| Collège Les Gondoliers | 99.8 | 85% | −2 pts |
| Collège Stéphane Piobetta | 108.6 | 91% | −3 pts |
| Collège René Couzinet | 88.6 | 85% | −3 pts |
| Collège Michel Ragon | 105.9 | 86% | −3 pts |
| Collège Frédéric et Irène Joliot-Curie | 101.2 | 79% | −3 pts |
| Collège Alexandre Soljenitsyne | 100.4 | 87% | −4 pts |
| Collège Auguste et Jean Renoir | 98.2 | 81% | −4 pts |
| Collège Nicolas Haxo | 98.9 | 85% | −5 pts |
| Collège Édouard Herriot | 105.3 | 82% | −5 pts |
| Collège les Colliberts | 95 | 84% | −5 pts |
| Collège François Viete | 95.3 | 85% | −6 pts |
| Collège Molière | 95 | 80% | −7 pts |
| Collège Pays de Monts | 97.7 | 84% | −7 pts |
| Collège Charles Milcendeau | 95.8 | 81% | −8 pts |
| Collège Jacqueline Auriol | 96 | 79% | −9 pts |
| Collège Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 105.4 | 82% | −10 pts |
| Collège Pierre Mauger | 112.6 | 79% | −12 pts |
| Collège Gaston Chaissac | 93.1 | 69% | −16 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 110.2, 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 Saint-Joseph, 96% of candidates passed the brevet. For pupils with the same family backgrounds and ages, the ministry expected about 94%. The difference, +2 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 Saint-Joseph
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Challans
Cost of living in Challans →Houses €2,632/m² · Apartments €2,642/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
5 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Challans, Vendée
Questions about Collège Saint-Joseph
Is Collège Saint-Joseph a good school?
In 2025, 96% of its 265 candidates passed the brevet (the average French school: 86.9%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +2 pts: above what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Collège Saint-Joseph?
It is a private school under contract with the state: it admits pupils itself, so ask the school.
What is the IPS of Collège Saint-Joseph?
110.2 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 October 30, 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.