Go ahead and take Johnston County off the table, seriously.

In 2012, Johnston County Schools performed academically in the top one-third of schools districts in North Carolina. As of 2019 we rank in the bottom third of the state.

Johnston County is bad: https://ncreports.ondemand.sas.com/src/district?district=510LEA&year=2020&lng=en

“Johnston County has 45 public schools, and over the two-year reporting period of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, 21 of those schools have borderline or failing scores of 56% or below, with 17 solidly in the failing category. Over one-third of Johnston County Schools fell below 54%, earning a D or F letter grade, with 14 making the current NC DPI low performance list, that is nearly double the average suburban failure rate according to My Future NC. “

“In 2018, 33 of the 45 schools did not meet growth expectations, and after EVAAS made a more generous data measure in 2019, that was cut to 16 schools, with 42% still not meeting Academic Growth. Selma Middle School has failed so miserably they are scoring an F and earning only 33/100 points.”

Source: jocoreport.com