In the student growth data recently released by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, two out of the three districts that fully reached their growth goals are local: Orange County Schools and Chatham County Schools. The state, which published its annual accountability report on Wednesday, measures growth by using a statistical model for comparison between each student’s testing results and their predicted test scores based on past performance. Measuring the children’s success across all subjects, each school in a North Carolina public district is identified as having ‘Exceeded,’ ‘Met’ or ‘Not Met’ its growth targets laid out by the state to encourage student development. For Orange County, all 13 of its schools finished in the ‘Exceeded’ or ‘Met’ categories — marking the first time the district has reached 100% of its school meeting student growth benchmarks. It comes after also seeing improvement in 2023-24 for most of its schools, moving all but one (Central Elementa...