The Impact of Social Segregation on Educational Achievement in France

Social and spatial segregation is increasingly present in debates on urban policy and in the analysis of the phenomena of violence among young people. In recent years the extent of social segregation among French secondary schools is mainly due to a greater social polarization in some urban areas.

There have been little studies about social segregation mainly because of the difficulties to build a set of relevant methods and measures.

The aim of this paper is to provide various measures of social and spatial segregation in order to assess the links between segregation, competitiveness and educational achievement.