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It is not PC to mention it, but an important predictor of
academic test results is that old faithful, the IQ measure.
This measure is designed to be normally distributed.
A high school may expect to see student results in general that are
reasonably normal, even if test results are not 'marked on a curve'
[i.e. transformed to a normal distribution] for this reason alone.