Lycée Les Châtaigniers
Versailles, Yvelines
Schools around Versailles B better than 59% of compared French towns
Nearly every candidate at Lycée Les Châtaigniers passes, as expected for pupils from more advantaged homes than at 94% of French lycées with the general & technological bac (IPS 145).
- 100% of its 55 candidates passed the general & technological bac in 2025, higher than at 80% of French lycées with the general & technological bac.
- That is about what pupils with these backgrounds usually get (+1 pt against the expected rate).
- Its pupils’ family background index (IPS) is 145, more advantaged than at 94% of French lycées with the general & technological bac. Shown for context, never graded.
- Its value added ranks 6th of the 18 lycées within 5 km.
- It counts in the School Grade of 12 towns, Versailles among them (every graded town within 5 km).
- A private school under contract with the state: it follows the national curriculum and sets its own admissions.
Value added, in plain words
Why a high pass rate isn’t the whole story.
At Les Châtaigniers, 100% of candidates passed the general & technological bac. For pupils with the same family backgrounds, ages, sex and brevet marks, the ministry expected about 99%. The difference, +1 pt, is its value added: its pupils do about as well as similar pupils elsewhere.
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.
Results
DEPP · 2025 sessionEach bar counts France’s 2,202 lycées with the general & technological bac with published 2025 results; Les Châtaigniers is marked.
Pass rate 100%
Higher than at almost all of them.
Value added +1 pt
Higher than at 82% 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 Yvelines’s lycées
2025The 53 lycées with the general & technological bac in Yvelines: 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 Saint-Exupéry | 97.9 | 95% | +2 pts |
| Lycée Les Pierres Vives | 138.9 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Exupéry | 146.8 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Jean Vilar | 119.3 | 97% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Charles de Gaulle | 126.4 | 98% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Érembert | 157.5 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Thomas de Villeneuve | 151.7 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Augustin | 155.7 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Notre-Dame Les Oiseaux | 153.5 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Les Châtaigniers | 145 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Notre-Dame du Grandchamp | 153.5 | 100% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Sonia Delaunay | 129.9 | 99% | +1 pt |
| Lycée Franco-Allemand | 161.5 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Pierre Corneille | 131.9 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée d'hôtellerie et de tourisme | 129.4 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Léopold Sédar Senghor | 110.1 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée l'Ermitage | 157.6 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame | 140.2 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Louis de Broglie | 148 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Descartes | 142.9 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Saint-François d'Assise | 153.8 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée François Villon | 102.9 | 94% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Sainte-Thérèse | 146.1 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Jeanne d'Albret | 141.4 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame | 157.7 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée international | 152 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Jean-Paul II | 150.7 | 100% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Hoche | 151.3 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Jules Ferry | 128.4 | 96% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Le Bon Sauveur | 155 | 99% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Viollet le Duc | 139.6 | 98% | ±0 pts |
| Lycée Louise Weiss | 105.6 | 92% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Blanche de Castille | 152.6 | 99% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Les 7 Mares | 127 | 97% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Dumont d'Urville | 109.9 | 93% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Louis Bascan | 133.1 | 96% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Jules Hardouin-Mansart | 121.8 | 95% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Jean-Baptiste Poquelin | 115.2 | 93% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Évariste Galois | 121.5 | 95% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Marie Curie | 129.3 | 96% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Jean et Hulst | 156.5 | 99% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Alain | 143.7 | 98% | −1 pt |
| Lycée Vincent Van Gogh | 120.4 | 93% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Jules Ferry | 122.3 | 94% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Émilie de Breteuil | 127 | 95% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Le Corbusier | 117.5 | 92% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Jean Monnet | 136.4 | 96% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Plaine de Neauphle | 86.2 | 85% | −2 pts |
| Lycée La Bruyère | 144.7 | 97% | −2 pts |
| Lycée Condorcet | 107.1 | 90% | −3 pts |
| Lycée de Villaroy | 119 | 89% | −6 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Léonard de Vinci | 119.8 | 89% | −6 pts |
| Lycée Jean Rostand | 94.1 | 72% | −11 pts |
Who goes here
DEPP · 2024–25The social position index (IPS) sums up pupils’ family backgrounds from their parents’ occupations. Around 100 is typical; higher means more advantaged homes (from about 50 to 160). Shown, never graded.
Living near Lycée Les Châtaigniers
What homes cost in the commune, and the other schools around it.
Homes in Versailles
Cost of living in Versailles →Houses €8,818/m² · Apartments €6,494/m²
DVF sales in the commune, July 2023 to June 2026.
Collèges and lycées within 5 km
38 othersCircles: collèges. Squares: lycées. Each links to its page.
Map
Directions ↗Versailles, Yvelines
Questions about Lycée Les Châtaigniers
What is the IPS of Lycée Les Châtaigniers?
145 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.
Is Lycée Les Châtaigniers a good school?
In 2025, 100% of its 55 candidates passed the general & technological bac (the average French school: 96.0%). Against the rate expected from its pupils, that is +1 pt: about what similar pupils usually get.
How do pupils get a place at Lycée Les Châtaigniers?
It is a private school under contract with the state: it admits pupils itself, so ask the school.
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 8, 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.