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This is the indicator that allows specialists to measure the resources given to an establishment by the State, to provide compulsory courses, options, specialist teaching or half-group classes. The “H/E”, for “hours per student”, is calculated from the overall hourly allocations, allocated by the State, corresponding to the volume of hours of courses that an establishment can provide each week. The more the H/E increases, the more this reflects good teaching conditions.

At the national level, the H/E of secondary education, public and private combined, amounted to 1.32 hours per student at the start of the 2023 school year, according to the Ministry of Education. This means that for 100 students, 132 hours of teaching are mobilized. But it varies from 1.19 for middle schools to 2.18 for vocational training. These differences can be explained by the differences in needs, specific to each sector or level.

What is the level of funding at your child’s school? Despite the silence of the National Education services (see methodology)franceinfo has obtained data from all middle and high schools in France, whether public or private. In the two tables below, you can search for an establishment and consult its H/E for the 2023 school year. Franceinfo has also calculated an average for each academy, helping you to know if the middle or high school in question is better or worse equipped than other establishments nearby.

Find your high school

Can’t find your school? This could be for a number of reasons. To create this list, franceinfo limited itself to general and technological high schools, in order to compare schools with comparable training offerings. Vocational courses, for example, where teaching can be provided in workshops and small groups, require more resources. This is why we did not keep the high schools for which the National Education Directory indicated a vocational course. Furthermore, high schools with fewer than 100 students, which necessarily have a very high H/E, were not kept to calculate these comparisons.

More locally, a difference in H/E between two establishments can be explained by a multitude of entirely legitimate criteria: size of the establishment, number of students per class, social characteristics, training offer, geographical area of ​​establishment, etc. Furthermore, the H/E of a high school can decrease due to the strong attractiveness of an establishment: if it attracts more students and its endowment remains stable, its H/E will be reduced. However, according to the ministry’s statisticians, “Relying on this indicator, rather than on the number of teachers present in the establishment, allows for more complete modeling of resources. (…) H/E is also preferred to the number of students per class”.

Search for your college

In the case of colleges, the average per academy for the public was calculated without taking into account the establishments of the priority education network (REP or REP+), because their resources are allocated according to different criteria, and are often well-endowed. Nevertheless, we have listed them in this table, so that you can see their level of hourly allocations per student.

Methodology

Since January 2024, franceinfo has asked the Ministry of National Education and the 30 academies to transmit data on the hourly allocations (DHG) of public and private high schools and colleges. Since 2015, the Commission for Access to Administrative Documents (Cada) had already issued several favorable opinions regarding access to this data, considering that “all documents relating to allocations and resources to be allocated to educational establishments are communicable to anyone who requests them”. The ministry surprisingly indicated that it did not have this data in a centralized manner and the academies did not respond. We therefore contacted the Cada, which ruled in favor. Only the Reunion academy then sent us its data. In the meantime, franceinfo has managed to obtain the H/E of all the establishments. Data that also seems to be well centralized.