There is a lot of statistical analysis around education - Waiting For Superman was analytically driven. Freakonomics has also discussed education with a lot of behavioral economic/statistical analysis.
I think "sabermetrics" can be leveraged in all aspects of life, in that sabermetrics is merely trying to identify causality.
So just like in baseball where you'd try to identify contact rates, outside the zone swing %, line drive rates, HR/FB, etc, etc, and determine the impact each has on the preferred outcomes of homers, batting average, power, fielding, etc.
In education, you'd try to measure the impact of various programs and funding across various ages, intelligence levels, etc.