MALDEN — About two dozen parents and supporters of the Mattahunt Elementary School in Mattapan urged the state education board Tuesday to block Boston’s plan to close the school.

The Boston School Committee, in an effort to avoid state receivership, voted earlier this month to close the school June 30.

Aveann Bridgemohan, whose daughter is a Mattahunt third-grader, told the board the school should stay open and be given more time to turn around.

“My daughter loves this school,’’ she said. “This is her second home.’’

She added, “As a parent, I don’t know what Level 4 means or what turnaround status means. All I know is my daughter is doing well.’’

But Paul Sagan, chairman of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, said the board had no authority to overturn the Boston School Committee’s vote.

Mitchell Chester, the state commissioner of elementary and secondary education, went a step further, saying he supported Boston’s decision.

He noted that the school’s performance had been stagnant for years, failing to move out of the bottom one percentile of schools statewide. Students, he said, would be better off transferring to higher-performing schools in the city.

“I think it would be a mistake to second-guess the School Committee’s decision,’’ he said.

The state officially declared Mattahunt underperforming four years ago because of persistently low test scores, and Chester warned Boston in September that he was considering a state takeover.

That prompted the School Committee earlier this month to approve a plan by Superintendent Tommy Chang to shut down the school to avoid receivership.

Under the plan, the Mattahunt School will be replaced by an early learning center in July. Mattahunt’s youngest students will have the option to attend the new program, while school officials say the older students will have a special priority in gaining admissions at other higher performing schools.

The discussion of Mattahunt consumed about two hours of the board’s monthly meeting.

City Councilor Tito Jackson asked the board to urge the Boston School Committee to reconsider its Nov. 16 vote.

“Let’s keep this community whole,’’ he said.

The Mattahunt School was one of two schools that Chester eyed for possible receivership this fall. The other was Commerce High School in Springfield, which ultimately dodged a state takeover.

Springfield officials decided to place the school with a group of middle schools that have been working together in a special innovation zone to boost student achievement.

In other action Tuesday, the state education board voted to send out for public comment a proposal on educator evaluations.

The proposal would scrap a requirement that school systems develop “student impact ratings’’ for each teacher and administrator based on how much their students have learned over a year, as measured by the growth in test scores and other measures.

Instead, the proposal calls for school systems to consider student test scores and other achievement data as part of the annual job reviews of individual educators.

The proposal has the support of professional organizations representing superintendents and some principals. But the Massachusetts Association of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers oppose it on the grounds that student test scores should not be used to judge teacher performance.

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