In the paper, the authors present an innovative approach that focuses on achievement rather than on failure, in contrast with the ordinary research tradition on education and minority status about stigmatized minorities. They analyze the educational achievement of the Roma/Gitanos in Spain and its impact on gender dynamics and cultural change drawing on results of an extensive research project and other existing literature. The analysis benefited from a comparative approach that includes regional diversity, gender and socioeconomic status. The project was developed in 5 different Spanish regions in which experiences and trajectories of achievement of Roma/Gitano were analyzed by a multidisciplinary and multiethnic team that combined demographic and documentary data with biographical techniques in order to reconstruct social, academic and personal trajectories of Roma/Gitano women and men of two age groups. The findings detail the factors that play a key role in generating conditions for achievement and school continuity in diverse socioeconomic situations, and also authors focus on the impact of academic achievement and continuity on the cultural strategies of gendered reproduction of the Roma/Gitano people in Spain.