I was nearly as surprised as Fearnley to discover that the Lycée Barral comes in at number 41 out of the 1,909 lycées in France in the recent rankings by L'Express. Barral achieved a 99% pass rate for the baccalauréat in 2008. Pretty impressive.
Look a little further down the tables and an interesting story emerges. Lycées cover the final three years of school: seconde, première, terminale. At Barral, only 62% of those in Seconde make it through to the final baccalauréat exam at the end of terminale, against 75% nationally. So there is some pretty ruthless weeding going on. And, according to the tables, there are 142 students in seconde, whereas in troisième (Fearnley's year) there must be close to 200. More weeding. Where do they all go? Mostly to Castres' biggest lyceé, the Borde Basse, which presents nearly four times as many Bac candidates and comes in at a still-respectable 713 in the national rankings.
In the Figaro listings, Barral comes even higher at number 26.
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When it comes to league tables there are always lies, damn lies and statistics...
It's private so I guess there's a religious element, but is it like Spain where your biology nun may not get round to teaching evolution?
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