Roughly 6 percent of city teachers were deemed ineffective last year based solely on their students’ scores on state math and reading tests, new city data shows.
The data stemmed from a trial-run of just one segment of a new teacher evaluation system that will be implemented at public schools here this fall.
That segment — which only looks at state math or reading scores for students in grades 4 to 8 — will only count for 20 percent of a teacher’s overall performance rating in 2013-14.
Local assessments and principal observations will count for the remaining 80 percent of teachers’ ratings.
The test-based reviews deemed twice as many teachers to be sub-par as the city’s current evaluation system — which rated just 3 percent of teachers “unsatisfactory” last year.
The current rating system doesn’t account for student test scores.
The trial-run of the test-based ratings found 8 percent of teachers to be “highly effective,” and the bulk of teachers — 76 percent — to be “effective.”
The remaining 10 percent of teachers — of the 10,544 who were rated — were considered to be “developing.”
These breakdowns were nearly identical for the city and state.
Teachers with two years of “ineffective” ratings can be subject to fast-track termination hearings under the new evaluation system, which was imposed on the city by the State Education Department June 1.