I don't know, schools here in Italy are not based on competition between classmates. Their purpose is to teach stuff!
I was def the smartest kid in primary and middle schools, then I did a hard type of high school (liceo classico) so of course there were people who got really high grades too.
Bye I will never understand how I, ESL, can tell the difference between than and then and you don't yet you're an english native speaker? I'm not shading you it's just hard for me to understand