As every year, Linternaute.com publishes its ranking of high schools 2025, established by the indicators of the Ministry of Education. Here is the best high school near you, in your city or your department!
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At the time of registrations in the second degree, moment of doubt or even anxiety for parents and students each year, it is a highly anticipated meeting. The ranking of the best high schools in 2025 is finally established, with, for each high school, a note established by us, making it possible to draw up a list of the best establishments in each city and in each department. Use the above search engine to find a high school, a city or a department and display the ranking.
For its high school ranking, Linternaute.com based itself as every year on the “performance indicators” updated by the Ministry of National Education between the end of March and the beginning of April. We opt for the most readable methodology: to establish our classification, each high school was evaluated according to the success rate in the bac, access from seconds to diploma and the rate of mentions (See the complete methodology). Other criteria are provided by the ministry that we have chosen not to use.
In the 2025 list of high schools the best high school in the country, the one who obtained the best note, is the Parisian private high school Stanislas, targeted by several controversies. The Lycées Ile-de-France always share the top of the ranking with the Lycée Maison de la Légion of Honor in Saint-Denis (93), the Henri IV high school, the Lycée École Active Jeannine Manuel and the Saint-Dominique high school.
- 1st – Stanislas high school (private, Paris 4th): 19.95/20
- 2nd – Lycée Maison de la Légion of Honor (Public, Saint -Denis): 19.9/20
- 3rd – Henri IV high school (public, Paris 5th): 19.75/20
- 4th – Bilingual Active School Jeannine Manuel (private, Paris 15th): 19.75/20
- 5th-Saint-Dominique high school (private, Neuilly-sur-Seine): 19.7/20
- 6th – Lycée Louis Le Grand (public, Paris 5th): 19.7/20
- 7th – Blomet high school (private, Paris 15th): 19.65/20
- 8th – Lycée Madeleine Danielou (private, rueil Malmaison): 19.65/20
- 9th-Notre-Dame de Missions high school (private, Charenton-le-Pont): 19.65/20
- 10th – La Rochefoucauld high school (private, Paris 7th): 19.6/20
Several prestigious high schools, on the other hand, leave the list of the top ten schools this year this year, such as the Alsatian School (private, Paris Vie), the Lycée Charlemagne (Public, Paris IVE), the Sainte-Geneviève high school (private, Asnières-sur-Seine) or the Saint-Michel high school (private, Paris 12th).
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 Lycées de l’Hexagon (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.