BEST HIGH SCHOOLS IN FRANCE. You can now consult it for free on our website: the 2022 list of the best high schools in France is online! Linternaute.com produces this ranking of high schools by city and by academy, using data from the Ministry of Education.
Consult the high school rankings 2022 (by city, department, region…):
[Mis à jour le 23 mars 2022 à 16h16] Our grand ranking of the best high schools in France, 2022 edition, is available for free on our pages. Carried out by region, but also by department and by city, the operation is based on the “IVAL”, for “Indicators of added value of high schools”. This data is provided each year by the Ministry of Education based on the results of high school students in previous baccalaureate exams. And, each year, Linternaute.com relies on the following three key criteria to give substance to its ranking:
- the rate of baccalaureate success
- the rate of mentions
- the rate ofsecond-baccalaureate access
So, what is the best high school near you? Discover it via this page, as well as the notes corresponding to each of the establishments. Also scrutinize the evolutions of the rate of mentions or the rate of access from the Second to the baccalaureate for each of the establishments which interest you. It is thus possible to compare the rates of these different indicators within the same establishment. Our high school pages also make a comparison between the success rate of an establishment or its second-baccalaureate access rate and the same rates at the departmental or national level.
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 new high school rankings, a high school in France takes first place hands down this year: Jeannine Manuel Active Bilingual School (Paris XV). Last year, she had to share her first place with the Franco-German high school in Buc (Yvelines). The Jeannine Manuel school is in pole position as a bonus of our ranking of French high schools for the tenth consecutive year (!)with a score of 20/20, compared to 19.90/20 the two previous years, and 19.80/20 in 2019.
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.
What is the Top 5 of the best high schools in France? According to our latest ranking, based on ministry data for the 2021 baccalaureate session, the following establishments are concerned:
- 1st – Active Bilingual School Jeannine Manuel (Private, Paris XVe)
- 2nd ex-aequo – Lycée Condorcet (Public, Paris 9th)
- 2nd ex-aequo – Lycée Les Francs Bourgeois (Private, Paris IVe)
- 2nd ex-aequo – Franco-German High School (Public, Buc, Yvelines)
- 5th ex-aequo – Lycée Mélizan (Private, Marseille XXth)
- 5th ex-aequo – Lycée Henri IV (Public, Paris Ve)
- 5th ex-aequo – Lycée Notre-Dame de Sion (Private, Paris XI)
- 5th ex-aequo – Notre-Dame des Missions High School (Private, Charenton-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne)
- 5th ex-aequo – Lycée Stanislas (Private, Paris VIe)
- 5th joint – Lycée Saint-Dominique (Private, Neuilly-sur-Seine)
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, is first in our high school ranking for the tenth consecutive year. In the 2022 edition of the high school ranking, the Top 20 of the best general and technological high schools in France includes no less than 12 Parisian high schools and 6 high schools located not in Paris but still in the Paris region. A score up for the capital’s high schools compared to the previous edition of the high school rankings, since 10 Parisian high schools (intramural) were then in the Top 20. On the other hand, we note a slight drop for the Ile-de-France high schools, since our Top 20 included 7 high schools in the Paris region in 2021.
The best Parisian high schools in our new ranking:
- 1st – Active school Jeannine Manuel (private, 15th arrondissement)
- 2nd ex-aequo – High School Condorcet (public, 9th arr.)
- 2nd ex-aequo – High School The Franks Bourgeois (private, IVth arr.)
- 4th ex-aequo – High School Henry IV (public, Ve arr.)
- 4th ex-aequo – High School Our Lady of Sion (private, VIth arr.)
- 4th ex-aequo – High School Stanislas (private, VIth arr.)
- 7th ex-aequo – High School Charlemagne (public, IVth arr.)
- 7th ex-aequo – Alsatian school (private, VIth 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. .
These rates are calculated by the DEPP (Department of Evaluation, Forecasting and Performance) for the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports, based on the results of the previous session of the baccalaureate, in some 4,300 high schools in France (general, technical and professional). 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 view, the only useful indicator. To measure the quality of education 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.