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Median is a positional average that gives the value located in the centre of the given statistical distribution.
Deviation, actually called "standard deviation" is, in a set of numbers, the average distance a number in that set is away from the mean, or average, number.
When a student takes a test or examination the result they receive, as a number, is often called a score. The average of a collection of scores, say for one class of students, is called a mean score. Mean is just another word for average.
The term ideal refers to the one that is exactly right or perfect. Average refers to anything that isn't ideal, but also is not an outlier. Average is somewhere in the middle of the two.
It is called so because it is shaped like a pie. It is also called a circle chart.