This ranking covers 149 of the 4,025 towns in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Not ranked: towns with fewer than two middle schools with an index. The table is split into pages of 100 towns. At the other end of the ranking, Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône) comes last with 79.5.
In France, a commune is the smallest unit of local government, from large cities to tiny villages. Paris, Lyon and Marseille are ranked as whole communes: their arrondissements (districts) have no rank of their own.
The ranking: highest middle school social index in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Source: French Ministry of Education (DEPP), social position indices of middle schools; simple average of the social position indices of the town’s public and state-contracted private middle schools, towns with at least two middle schools. Not ranked: towns with fewer than two middle schools with an index. Tied values share the same rank. Data sources.