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Le Figaro rates France’s Lycées

Le Figaro newspaper has rated France’s senior schools (lycées) and produced a definitive list of France’s best and worst secondary education establishments, revealing a distinct bias towards the Paris area and the south-east of France when it comes to top-class schooling, with lycées around Paris and Lyon dominating the charts.

Lycée François Mansart in Thizy, near Lyon, was nominated as France’s best lycée, and was one of the few public (free) lycées to make it into the top 20. In all, 15 of the top 20 secondary schools listed are private, fee-paying schools, with just one public lycée in the north of France, Lycée Galilee in Franqueville St Pierre near Caen, making it into the top 20. Those public schools that did make the grade were concentrated around Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon in the south-east.

The schools were rated primarily on the basis of their pupils’ Baccalauréat success (A-level equivalent), with these results counting for two-fifths of the schools’ final grade. Secondly, the schools were judged on their pupils’ progression and improvement, calculated by taking into account a pupil’s social background and entry-level grades versus their performance in the Bac, again this criterion accounts for two-fifths of the final grade.The third and final factor to be taken into account was whether the schools exercised a selection process on entry, those schools that separated out gifted or talented pupils in order to maximise their pass rate had points deducted from their total.

Visit http://www.lefigaro.fr/palmares-lycees/ to find out how your local lycée performed

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