Lycée professionnel Valère Mathé
Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée
Schools around Les Sables-d'Olonne B+ better than 66% of compared French towns
Lycée professionnel Valère Mathé adds +6 pts to the pass rate expected from its pupils: more than 84% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- 97% of its 87 candidates passed the vocational bac in 2025, higher than at 91% of French lycées with the vocational bac.
- That is +6 pts against the rate expected from its pupils’ backgrounds: 6 more passes in every 100 candidates than pupils like these usually get.
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 93.3, more advantaged than at 63% of French lycées with the vocational bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 1st of the 4 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of Les Sables-d'Olonne (every graded town within 5 km).
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 1,874 lycées with the vocational bac with published 2025 results; Valère Mathé is marked.
Pass rate 97%
Higher than at 93% of them.
Value added +6 pts
Higher than at 88% 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 lycées
2025The 17 lycées with the vocational bac 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée polyvalent Notre-Dame | 102.1 | 100% | +9 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent privé Saint-Carlo Acutis | 99 | 100% | +6 pts |
| Lycée professionnel privé Saint-François d'Assise | 109.1 | 99% | +6 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Valère Mathé | 93.5 | 97% | +6 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Adeline Boutain | 94.1 | 100% | +6 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent François Rabelais | 85.9 | 89% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Notre-Dame du Roc | 108.4 | 98% | +3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Notre-Dame | 100.8 | 95% | +2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Sainte-Marie | 96.8 | 95% | +1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Sainte-Marie du Port | 108.4 | 95% | +1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel privé Saint-Gabriel Saint-Michel | 113.5 | 97% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Atlantique | 93.4 | 89% | −4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Rosa Parks | 89.7 | 83% | −5 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean Monnet | 89.8 | 81% | −6 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Éric Tabarly | 94.6 | 79% | −6 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Édouard Branly | 88.7 | 83% | −7 pts |
| Lycée professionnel René Couzinet | 91.2 | 78% | −15 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 93.5, close to the French average of 91.7: neither more nor less advantaged than most.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Valère Mathé, 97% of candidates passed the vocational bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 91%. The difference, +6 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 Lycée professionnel Valère Mathé
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Les Sables-d'Olonne
Cost of living in Les Sables-d'Olonne →Houses €3,974/m² · Apartments €4,651/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
8 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée
Questions about Lycée professionnel Valère Mathé
Is Lycée professionnel Valère Mathé a good school?
In 2025, 97% of its 87 candidates passed the vocational bac (the average French school: 84.4%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +6 pts: above what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée professionnel Valère Mathé?
State lycée places go through the académie’s Affelnet assignment, which weighs where the family lives, the pupil’s marks and the courses chosen.
What is the IPS of Lycée professionnel Valère Mathé?
93.3 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 9, 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.