If Black Africans are outperforming whites in anything of an academic nature,theirs a serious problem.Much investment has gone into their community's to achieve educational parity to no avail.Their generally the worst performing academic group.When you talk about the performance of whites,it really is a class thing.The white middle classes produce the brightest students outperforming every other etnic group,but their is a problem with lower working class whites in certain areas suffering from high incidences of drop out rates and school failure aswell as a myriad of other social problems that are linked.The Indians and Chinese are acording to statistics the strongest groups overall academically.Its interesting though,when it comes to higher education and university,and the awarding of first class honours degrees particularly in the maths and sciences,white males lead the way despite the high number of non white and foreign students filling up British unversity's from Africa,India,china etc.I believe its also true of Australia and the U.S aswell.Asians,still being of minority status are more motivated in education through their family's ,putting more emphasis on it from a younger age than their white counterparts which may explain their educational sucess over white students at high school level.