John A. Murillo

A 4th grade teacher at Liggett Street 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, Murillo ranked:

More effective than average 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.
More effective than average in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, gained about 2 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Murillo's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Liggett Street Elementary, 2009 - 2003

John Murillo's Response:

I work with the GATE students, which means that many of my students are scoring in the higher to highest score ranges. For many of them, making a jump of 2 points in Language Arts and a 10 point jump in Mathematics is phenomenal. These results are not reflective of situation nor class demographics. I had hoped the LA Times could produce a higher quality measure.

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