Parents angry about the city’s precipitous drop in test scores this year raised such a ruckus at the Panel for Educational Policy Board’s meeting last night that officials shut it down.

After a motion to let the public have its say on the third- through eighth-grade scores was denied, parents began screaming, and 15 minutes later, officials ended the meeting at Murry Bergtraum HS in Manhattan.

“It’s an enormously important issue, and there should have been opportunity for the public to speak,” said board member Patrick Sullivan.

School officials said they would have let parents speak and ended the meeting early only because of a “small unruly group.”