We never had special schools for fighter training. To my knowledge, the same standarts applied to everybody, and still do.
Reasons for german aces scoring so high:
-up until 1942 very high standarts of training for "all" conscripts.
-lots of expirience gained in the spanish civil war.
-usage of new tactics, finger four, boom and zoom etc.
-state of the art equipment
-6 years of continues war. German pilots fought from the start to the end, no 25 missions rotations.
-target rich environments.
-a rather agressive attitude, the german term for a fighter aircraft, "jäger" is directly translated with "hunter".
All in all no magic in there. Just a lot of capable pilots in capable aircraft with capable tactics against masses of mostly inexpirienced pilots in obsolete aircraft without modern tactics.
That changed from 1943 onwards, however. Attacking bomber streams numbering to the thousand takes a lot of capability out of the equation and replaces it with pure luck.
WW1 was roughly similiar, however with the opposition much more on equal terms.
So, not really a reference for setting up modern day fighter training schools.
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