Can We Make Overachieving a Normal Expectation?

The chart atEduwonk.com shows Roxbury Prep's students and statewide scores by subgroup. So we have an unusual school. Can we expect all schools to be unusual merely because one is an outlier on the distribution curve? Is the message: this school performs well so all schools should be able to do as well? This hope strategy in ed reform won't work. We've got to get the fundamentals right.