Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Near Fontenay-le-Comte, 92.8% of collège pupils passed the brevet, close to Vendée’s towns (92.4%) and above compared French towns (87.5%). 3 collèges and 2 lycées with 2025 results and value added are within 5 km (3 miles) of Fontenay-le-Comte. Fontenay-le-Comte grades A− for schools, on their brevet and bac pass rates and value added: #16 of 34 in Vendée. 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).
99% of 137 candidates passed the brevet at Collège Saint-Joseph in 2025, 5 points more than the ministry expected from its pupils’ backgrounds and ages. Results and background ↓
1 of the 3 collèges within 5 km is private, under contract with the state: it teaches the national curriculum and its pupils sit the same brevet. It counts in the grade like the public ones. Every school ↓
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 grade uses every collège and lycée within 5 km of Fontenay-le-Comte with 2025 results and value added, public and private under contract: 3 collèges (344 candidates) and 2 lycées (380). 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 3 schools here, 2 are 2 points or more above the expected rate and 1 2 points or more below.
| School | IPS | Pass rate | Value added (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-JosephBrevet · Private | 111.6 | 99% | +5 pts |
| Collège André TiraqueauBrevet · Public | 93.6 | 93% | +4 pts |
| Collège François VieteBrevet · Public | 95.3 | 85% | −6 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. 3 collèges and 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fontenay-le-Comte 3 collèges · 2 lycées | A− | 93% | 97% |
| Benet 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 11.6 mi | A | 94% | —1 |
| La Châtaigneraie 1 collège · 0 lycées · 13 mi | A | 95% | —1 |
| Saint-Jean-de-Liversay 0 collèges · 0 lycées · 14 mi | — | — | — |
| Marans 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 14 mi | B | 88% | —1 |
| Saint-Jean-d'Hermine 2 collèges · 0 lycées · 14 mi | A− | 91% | —1 |
| Magné 0 collèges · 1 lycée · 16 mi | — | — | 98% |
1 No lycée with results within 5 km: that town’s grade uses its collèges alone.
Benet has the best-graded schools nearby (A).
They grade A−, better than those around 81% of compared French towns and #16 of 34 in Vendée. In 2025, 92.8% of the 344 candidates at the three collèges within 5 km passed the brevet (+1.1 pts against the expected rate). At the lycées, 97.1% of 380 candidates passed the bac (+1.3 pts).
Against the expected rate, Collège Saint-Joseph (private, 0.5 mi): 99% of 137 candidates passed the brevet in 2025, +5 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 Notre-Dame (private, 0.6 mi): 99% of 133 candidates passed the general and technological bac in 2025, +1 pt 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. Fontenay-le-Comte has 7 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.