Lucille Jeanett Boston

A 4th grade teacher at Vermont Avenue Elementary in 2009

These graphs show a teacher's "value-added" rating based on his or her students' progress on the California Standards Tests in math and English. The Times’ analysis used all valid student scores available for this teacher from the 2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years. The value-added scores reflect a teacher's effectiveness at raising standardized test scores and, as such, capture only one aspect of a teacher's work.

Overall value-added effectiveness

Math effectiveness

English effectiveness

This chart shows where teachers in this effectiveness category fall on a distribution of all teachers’ scores.

Compared with other Los Angeles Unified teachers on the value-added measure of test score improvement, Boston ranked:

Most effective overall.
Most effective in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, gained about 11 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.
Most effective in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, gained about 7 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Boston's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Vermont Avenue Elementary, 2009 - 2004

Lucille Boston's Response:

My overall value-added score was " most effective" and my class made great gains, some students jumping two levels. Only one student stayed on the same level in language arts.
Here is the catch - this report does not show how many students were out of the classroom excessively, nor how many students came late everyday. It doesn't show who failed to do home- work nor how many students behavior was disruptive to the entire class.
Teachers are required to deal with so many different situations, personalities and problems. I am the same teacher who is in the" most effective" category but if I had the ELD 1 or 2 students my gains would not be the same. If all students were the same and all conditions the same, then you could judge everyone equally.

P.S. 3 of my students scored a perfect 600 on the Math CST.

The Times gave LAUSD elementary school teachers rated in this database the opportunity to preview their value-added evaluations and publicly respond. Some issues raised by teachers may be addressed in the FAQ. Teachers who have not commented may do so by contacting The Times.