Depends on the group of boys and the local culture.
There was plenty of jocking for higher spots in the hierarchy among the boys I grew up with…cept the jockeying took the form of bullying and outright fights(including knives and guns at the public middle/high schools in my old neighborhood back then.
One older neighbor ended up getting knifed just a few weeks into his freshman year at our neighborhood high school requiring multiple stitches and he cited his experience to urge us all younger kids to do whatever we could to avoid attending our neighborhood HS. One key reason why I took the exam for my public magnet HS and enrolled there instead among being admitted.