The Ministry of Education has just published the “success indicators” for high schools based on the 2023 baccalaureate results. Discover the result of your establishment.
Is studying in a Parisian private high school a guarantee of baccalaureate success? These establishments dominate the BFM ranking of the best high schools in France, published this Wednesday March 20 and based on the “results indicators” of the Ministry of National Education.
To decide between establishments, we successively took into account four criteria:
- their baccalaureate success rate in 2023,
- their rate of mentions in the same year
- their “added value” for these two indicators.
This “added value” measures “the difference between the results obtained and the results that were hoped for, taking into account the academic and socio-professional characteristics of the students”. In other words, the higher the added value of an establishment, the more it has exceeded expectations given the profile of high school students. Which can mean, specifies the ministry, that he “was able to develop in students, perhaps less well endowed at the start, the knowledge and abilities which enabled their success”.
The ranking of general and technological high schools
How does your high school rank? Type the name of your establishment or the city that interests you in the search engine located just above the list to consult its results. You will be able to consult the baccalaureate success rates and the mention rate obtained in general and technological high schools in 2023, the “expected” rates in each establishment and, in parentheses, their “added value”.
This ranking does not indicate the involvement of the teaching staff, the quality of the teaching provided, the options offered, or the general well-being of the students. The ranking, to be discovered in full below, is only based on performance indicators and does not take into account criteria other than educational success.
Private establishments dominate the top of the ranking, with the Saint-François d’Assise high school in Montigny-le-Bretonneux (Yvelines), which posted a 100% success rate and mentions in the baccalaureate last year, as well as strong added value. Only 11 public high schools appear in the top 100, including Henri IV high schoollocated in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, also with 100% success and mentions.
Another constant in this ranking: Ile-de-France establishments dominate the top places. The first high school outside Île-de-France, the private high school Lacordaire in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) is 9th in our ranking, with a success rate of 100% and a mention rate of 99%.
>> The 2024 ranking of the best colleges in France: does your establishment prepare well for the patent?
These good performances can be explained by multiple factors including, for certain establishments, selection, with the departure during the course of students whose results are considered too low. Another criterion to examine, available in our search engine, is therefore the baccalaureate access rate: the proportion of second year students who obtained the diploma while remaining in the establishment.
The 10 most successful general and technological high schools in France
- Saint Francis of Assisi High School (private), Montigny-le-Bretonneux (Yvelines)
- Saint-Michel de Picpus High School (private), Paris 12th arrondissement
- Notre Dame High School (private), Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine)
- Saint-Jean de Passy High School (private), Paris 16th arrondissement
- Sainte-Marie High School (private), Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine)
- Henri IV High School (public), Paris 5th arrondissement
- Stanislas High School (private), Paris 6th arrondissement
- Madeleine Danielou High School (private), Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine)
- Lacordaire High School (private), Paris 6th arrondissement
- Notre-Dame de Sion High School (private), Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine)
If private establishments in the Ile-de-France region dominate the ranking, public high schools are doing well in terms of added value. We can thus cite the Georges Imbert high school in Sarre-Union (Bas-Rhin), in 224th place: it displays a 100% success rate and above all an 80% mention rate, for an added value of 21 points on this criterion.
Same performance for Germaine Tillion high school in Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), 1506th in the ranking with 95% success rate (9 points of added value), 55% mention rate (21 points of added value). Or Bazeilles high school in Sedan (Ardennes), 969th: 97% success rate (2 points of added value) and 76% rate of mentions (19 points of added value).
The ranking of professional high schools
What about vocational high schools? Type the name of your establishment or the city that interests you in the search engine located just above the list to consult its results. There you will also be able to consult the baccalaureate success rates and the mention rate obtained in vocational high schools in 2023, the “expected” rates in each establishment and, in parentheses, their “added value”.
The 10 most successful vocational high schools in France
- Grésivaudan High School (public), Meylan (Isère)
- John Paul II High School (private), Compiègne (Oise)
- Saint Mary’s Oratory (private), Auch (Gers)
- Airbus High School (private), Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
- Sainte-Anne High School (private), Sablé-sur-Sarthe (Sarthe)
- Bernat Extxepare High School (private), Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
- Saint-Joseph High School (private), Gabarret (Landes)
- Saint-François de Sales High School (private), Alençon (Orne)
- Plaine High School (public), Eysines (Gironde)
- Daniel Brottier hotel high school (private), Bouguenais (Loire-Atlantique)
As a reminder, the success rate for the June 2023 edition of the baccalaureate reached 95.7% for the general bac, 89.8% for the technological bac and 82.7% for the professional bac. In addition to success and grade rates, other criteria can make it possible to evaluate differences between high schools, such as the social position index, which measures the social situation of students.