BEST HIGH SCHOOLS IN FRANCE. The 2022 list of the best high schools in France will be available this Wednesday. Established by Linternaute.com from data from the Ministry of Education, our ranking of high schools is broken down by city and by academy…
[Mis à jour le 18 mars 2022 à 10h58] The 2022 edition of the high school ranking will be available on our pages on Wednesday March 23. It is carried out by region, by department and by city, based on the results indicators of high schools from the Ministry of Education, alias IVAL, for “Indicators of added value of high schools”. Each year, Linternaute.com therefore establishes a ranking of XXL high schools across France, based on three key criteria:
- the rate of baccalaureate success
- the rate of mentions
- the rate ofsecond-baccalaureate access
The ranking is based on the processing of data compiled by the DEPP (Department of Evaluation, Forecasting and Performance) for the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports, from the results of the previous session of baccalaureate, in some 4,300 high schools in France (general, technical and professional). Last important detail: when we compile this DEPP data, we also decide to give additional weight to one of the criteria in particular. The success rate for the baccalaureate “weighs” for 50% of the total mark established for each of the high schools, when the rate of mentions and the rate of access to the baccalaureate count for 25% of the mark each.
What is the latest high school ranking?
By consulting the latest ranking of the best establishments by city and by academy, dating from the previous month of March, you can discover which are the best performing high schools near you. And in our ranking of high schools, there is not one but two best high schools in France this year: the Ecole active bilingual Jeannine Manuel (Paris XV) and the Franco-German high school in Buc (Yvelines).
Consult the latest high school rankings (by city, department, region, etc.):
► Consult the IVALs on the website of the Ministry of Education
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So, what is the best high school near you? While waiting for the 2022 edition, next March, our last major high school ranking is accessible. Find out via this special page, by city, by department or by academy, with the notes corresponding to each of the high schools.
What is the best high school in your department, your region (or academy) or even your city? What grade does your or your child’s high school get? Is it more efficient than neighboring high schools? Does the brand new high school ranking give pride of place to public or private establishments near you? Are provincial or small high schools doing better than “bac factories” in terms of baccalaureate results and access to this same exam? View local high school performance with our map.
In our latest high school rankings, two institutions come out on top this year. I’Active bilingual school Jeannine-Manuel is in pole position of our ranking of French high schools for the ninth consecutive year (!), with a score of 19.90/20, exactly the same as the previous year (and an increase of 0.10 points compared to 2019). However, it must share its first place, since the Franco-German high school in Buc also obtains the title of best high school in France. This school also won the overall score of 19.90/20 in our ranking, against 19.75 last year. He then came 3rd, behind the Jeannine-Manuel active bilingual school and the Henri IV high school.
- The Jeannine-Manuel Active Bilingual School is a non-denominational private establishment located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, near Boulevard de Grenelle. The establishment was founded in the 1950s by Resistance fighter and pedagogue Jeannine Manuel. Associated with Unesco, the school benefits from aid from the National Education and can take care of pupils from kindergarten to terminale. As its name suggests, it provides lessons in both French and English. And works for a “better communication” between peoples, in particular by proposing the acquisition of an international baccalaureate. The organization is governed by an association framework law 1901.
- The Franco-German high school in Buc is a public establishment which defines itself as having a deeply “bicultural” spirit and also wishes to awaken its students to European citizenship. It also offers a Franco-German baccalaureate, recognized by both countries. This high school is one of the establishments resulting from a Franco-German treaty (“Treaty of the Elysée”) signed on January 22, 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Since 2005, the Franco-German high school in Buc has also hosted an English-speaking international section for students in Second, First and Terminale, which prepares for the OIB baccalaureate (International Baccalaureate Option).
The Parisian high schools are in pole position in the ranking of high schools. IJeannine-Manuel Bilingual Active School, a non-denominational private establishment in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, topped our high school rankings for the ninth year in a row. In the 2021 edition of the high school ranking, the Top 20 of the best general and technological high schools in France includes no less than 10 Parisian high schools and 6 high schools located not in Paris but still in the Paris region. A score nevertheless down compared to the previous edition of the high school rankings, since 12 Parisian high schools (intramural) were then in the Top 20, as well as 7 high schools in the Paris region.
The best Parisian high schools in our latest ranking:
- 1st ex-aequo – Active school Jeannine Manuel (private, 15th arrondissement)
- 4th ex-aequo – High School The Franks Bourgeois (private, IVth arr.)
- 4th ex-aequo – High School Stanislas (private, VIth arr.)
- 4th ex-aequo – High School Fenelon Sainte-Marie (private, VIIIth arr.)
- 8th ex-aequo – High School Henry IV (public, Ve arr.)
- 8th ex-aequo – High School Blomet (private, 15th arrondissement)
- 8th ex-aequo – High School Tower (private, XVIth arr.)
- 8th ex-aequo – High School Saint Louis de Gonzague (private, XVIth arr.)
What is the high school ranking? And how do we make it? The IVAL, or “Indicators of added value of high schools”, are a series of indicators provided by the Ministry of Education, which make it possible to evaluate the capacity of each high school to take its pupils from the second class to the bachelor degree. These IVALs go well beyond the simple baccalaureate success rate and take into account the “access rate” to the baccalaureate, i.e. the proportion of students able to obtain the diploma from the second, the first and even from the final year. .
From this IVAL data, we establish a list of the best high schools in France with a ranking, high school by high school, of the 4,300 establishments (2,300 general and technical high schools, approximately 2,000 vocational high schools) in our country. For each establishment, the following figures are published:
- Bac pass rate: this indicator, expressed as a percentage, is the best known. It represents the number of pupils having obtained the bac according to the number of registered for this examination in the same high school.
- The access rate of seconds to the tray: this indicator evaluates the chances that a student entering the second year has of moving on to the following classes and then of obtaining his baccalaureate in the high school where he has just registered, regardless of the number of years required to obtain it (otherwise said, repetition(s) included).
- The rate of mention in the baccalaureate: this indicator scrutinizes the proportion of students in an establishment who have obtained the baccalaureate with honors, whether it is a “fairly good”, “good” or “very good” mention, and all series included.
Attention: changes are to be noted over the editions of the high school ranking. Since 2015, one criterion in particular has disappeared: that of the “rate of outgoing baccalaureate holders”, in other words the proportion of baccalaureate holders out of all students leaving the establishment (second, first and final years combined). In 2018, a new criterion was introduced, that of the baccalaureate mention rate (“fairly well”, “good”, “very well”).
How do we get an overall rating ?
Linternaute.com has decided to establish its ranking taking into account three of the indicators provided by the Ministry of Education: the success rate for the baccalaureate, the rate of access to the secondary baccalaureate and the rate of mentions for the baccalaureate, all series included. We assign a coefficient of 2 for the baccalaureate pass rate, which accounts for half of our assessment. We believe that this measure remains relevant, despite the growing percentages of baccalaureate holders. But this final success is not, in our eyes, the only useful indicator. To measure the quality of teaching over time, we add the “access rate of seconds to the tray“, which accounts for a quarter of the note, to which has been added since 2018 the “baccalaureate honors rate“, which constitutes the last quarter of the overall score awarded to each high school.
