The rate of social segregation of Parisian high schools has declined greatly since the establishment of the reform of the platform, in 2021. In Henri-IV and Louis-le-Grand, integrated at the start of the 2022, the level school has not been affected.
by Violaine Morin
The Parisian situation, of the confession of the rector Christophe Kerrero, appointed in 2020, had become “impossible”. The high school assignment platform by the Net (Affelnet), entry into application in 2008 and used everywhere in France to distribute the students of 3 e in high schools – but configured very differently in Paris – had generated enormous pressure on a few high schools in the northeast quarter of the capital, which became extremely selective while others were shunned by good students. This situation, in addition to it generated a marked social and school interior, generated frustration, the students being, especially in the Northeast, few to access the school of their choice.
An Affelnet reform was therefore initiated for the start of the 2021 school year, and the least we can say is that it has borne fruit. “In the space of two years, the social segregation of public high schools in the capital, which was 15 % greater than other academies, has become 26 % lower than this average” summarizing Julien Grenet and Pauline Charousset, researchers At the Paris School of Economy, in an analysis note broadcast on February 8 . Julien Grenet pilots the reform monitoring committee, set up by the rectorate.
In 2021, year of entry into force of the reform, social segregation – the fact of bringing together students of the same social origin in the same establishments – in Parisian public high schools had dropped by around 30 %, compared to In 2019. In 2022, she fell 39 %, still compared to 2019. Based on the results of positioning tests at the start of 2 of , Julien Grenet’s team also Calculated that “the school segregation index of Parisian public high schools was down 26 % at the start of the 2021 school year, and 30 % at the start of the 2022 school year”. School segregation – the fact of bringing together students of the same level in the same place – remains much more marked in Paris than in the rest of the country.
With this reform, each Parisian college was awarded a “sector 1” of five high schools of varied attractiveness. Students selected on a disadvantaged college benefit from a bonus of 600 or 1,200 points to access the high school of their choice, and a separate procedure affects a “target rate” of scholarship holders in each high school. This method made it possible to “relocate competition”, indicate the two researchers. The “historically the most selective” high schools, such as Charlemagne (4 e arrondissement) and Victor Hugo (3 e ), have lost a little of their “pressure rate”, In favor of new “poles of attractiveness” apart from the Parisian hypercentre, like Lamartine (9 e ) and Voltaire (11 e ).
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