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The ranking of the best high schools in France in 2025 is unveiled in early April, through “high school performance indicators”, published each year by the Ministry of National Education. To establish the classification of high schools, many criteria are used, starting with the success rate in the bac of each establishment. A key result, which is balanced by the access rate of seconds to the bac and the rate of mentions. Discover from Wednesday April 2, 2025 the updated ranking with all the new indicators, high school by high school.
In the last list of high schools Le Best Lycée du Pays, the one who obtained the best note, was the Parisian private high school Stanislas, then targeted by several controversies. The Ile -de -France high schools regularly share the top of the ranking. To find the classification and result of each high school near you, use the search engine at the top of the article.
In our latest track record, the establishment which won first place is the Stanislas high school, which obtains the same note as the Henri IV high school and two other establishments. We decides by integrating the variable of the access rate of second and first students in the bac (see details below). According to our ranking, based on weighted ministry data with our methodology, here are the 10 best high schools in France classified according to a note on 20. The data is specified for each high school by clicking on the corresponding link:
- 1st – Stanislas high school (private, Paris Vie): 19.8/20*
- 2nd – Henri IV high school (public, Paris VE): 19.8/20
- 3rd-Saint-Dominique high school (private, Neuilly-sur-Seine): 19.8/20
- 4th – Bilingual Active School Jeannine Manuel (private, Paris XVE): 19.8/20
- 5th – Lycée Louis Le Grand (Public, Paris VE): 19.75/20
- 6th – Alsatian School (private, Paris Life): 19.7/20
- 7th – Lycée Charlemagne (Public, Paris IVE): 19.7/20
- 8th-Sainte-Geneviève high school (private, Asnières-sur-Seine): 19.65/20
- 9th – Lycée Saint -Michel de Picpus (private, Paris XII): 19.6/20
- 10th – Lycée Madeleine Danielou (private, rueil Malmaison): 19.6/20
The 5 best Parisian high schools in our ranking:
- 1st – Stanislas high school (private, Paris Vie): 19.8/20*
- 2nd – Henri IV high school (public, Paris VE): 19.8/20
- 3rd – Bilingual Active School Jeannine Manuel (private, Paris XVE): 19.8/20
- 4th – Lycée Louis Le Grand (Public, Paris VE): 19.75/20
- 5th – Alsatian school (private, Paris life): 19.7/20
What is the classification of high schools? And how do we develop it? The IVAL, or “value added indicators of high schools”, become “indicators of high school results” or “Lycée performance indicators”, are a series of indicators provided each year by the Ministry of Education, which allow the ability of each high school to take its students to the baccalaureate diploma. These indicators go far beyond the simple success rate and take into account the mentions, but also the “access rate” to the bac, the proportion of students able to win the diploma since the second, the first and even since the final year.
To consult the indicators: www.education.gouv.fr/indinders-results-colgeges/www.education.gouv.fr/inders-results-lycees
These rates are calculated by the DEPP (Directorate of Evaluation, Prospective and Performance) for the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports, from Bac results During the last session, in the approximately 4,300 high schools in France (general, technical and professional). From this data, we establish a list of the best high schools in France with a classification, high school per high school, of the 4,300 establishments (2,300 general and technical high schools, around 2,000 high schools) of our country. For each of the establishments, the following figures are published:
- The success rate in the bac: This indicator, expressed as a percentage, is the best known. It represents the number of students who obtained the bac according to the number of registrants for this examination in the same high school.
- The access rate of seconds to the bac: This indicator assesses the chances that a student entering the second to go into the following classes and then obtain his baccalaureate in the school where he has just registered, regardless of the number of years necessary to obtain (in other words, repetition (s) included).
- The mention rate in the bac: This indicator scrutinizes the proportion of students from an establishment who obtained the baccalaureate with mention, whether it is a mention “fairly well”, “good” or “very well”, and all series included.
To note the high schools out of 20, we allocate a coefficient 2 for the success rate in the bac, which has half in our evaluation. We believe that this measure remains relevant, despite the growing percentages of graduates. But this final success is not, in our view, the only useful indicator. To measure the quality of teaching over time, we add the “access rate of seconds to the bac”, which has a quarter of the note for a quarter of the note, which has been added since 2018 the “rate of mention to the bac”, which constitutes the last quarter of the overall note awarded to each high school.
The Ministry of National Education presents these Ival in this way: “The results of an establishment are a complex reality. The question is what an establishment has” added “to the initial level of its students. If an establishment has a high rate for an indicator, it may be due to the fact:
- that he received good students, with good working methods, who were able to obtain the baccalaureate or the patent without any particular effort on his part;
- Or that he was able to develop in students, perhaps less well endowed at the start, the knowledge and the capacities which allowed their success.
The IVACs and the Ival allow a diagnosis that goes beyond that which can be made from the only “gross” success rates on the exam, baccalaureate and national patent diploma (DNB) “. The ministry adds:” It is therefore not for the ministry of carrying out a classification of colleges or high schools but of proposing, through this combination of indicators, an image of the complex and relative reality that constitute the results of an establishment. The indicators have two objectives:
– report on the results of the national public education service by disseminating elements of assessment of the own action for each establishment to the general public
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– Provide managers and teachers from colleges and high schools with reflection to help them improve the efficiency of their actions.