1. The weight of tradition
“It’s quite common. It is to his credit: Michel Steinmetz does not overplay his joy, just as he does not oversell the performance of his establishment. Last year, Saint-Pierre Chanel improved in its standards with a… 100% success rate in the baccalaureate. Impossible to do better, forbidden to do less well, as the private establishment has long cultivated a degree of excellence well above the average. As proof, Le Figaro student ranks it at the top of the high schools of the Nancy-Metz academy (another methodology published by L’Etudiant crosses other criteria and grants first place to another high school in Thionville, La Providence).
Even a global pandemic, punctuated by confinements, did not stop this beautiful mechanism driven by the teaching staff: “At the height of the Covid crisis, we did not have any absent teachers, everyone responded present”, salutes the principal, who has been in charge of Saint-Pierre Chanel since 2016. This level of involvement greatly contributes to another much more evocative result for the school: its rate of mentions, which is around 91%: “Our great satisfaction is located there”, points out the head of the establishment. Which, lucid, do not lose sight of the context of crisis which could have contributed to boosting this score: “These mentions prove that our students have not demobilized. Now, one can imagine that the juries also took this situation into account in their ratings. »
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2. A high school on the digital page
The past school year, crossed against the backdrop of Covid, has highlighted the digital divide that weighs on the educational environment. Some establishments have indeed paid a high price for their lack of agility on the Web. Or simply suffered due to a lack of computer equipment. At Saint-Pierre Chanel, the strategy deployed for a long time on the digital front has made it possible to absorb these periods of distance learning. After a period of experimentation in 2015 with two classes, the establishment transformed the trial in 2016, providing all of its students with 6e from a digital tablet: “This has allowed us to face, serenely, the effects of the pandemic on education. And so not to slow down until the end of the baccalaureate.
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