After parents, community members, and public education advocates had urged state education officials to intervene in the city’s plan to close the Mattahunt Elementary School, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education members said on Tuesday that they had no authority to get involved in the School Committee’s decision.

The panel voted earlier this month to close the school, which has been labeled since 2012 as a Level 4 or “underperforming” school in the state’s accountability ranking system. The school is now set to close June 30 and open the next day as an early education center.

“I know that people came here and devoted a lot of time today in hoping that there was a different outcome, but we don’t have the authority to impose one or were we asked by the authorities who have to make the very difficult call,” the state board’s chairman, Paul Sagan, said. “That is a local decision.”

One Mattapan resident in the audience stood up and said his neighborhood is “never respected” and the “process is broken. When the process does not work for the people, you have to challenge it,” said Jovan Lacet, an attorney and longtime Mattapan resident who was an unsuccessful candidate for state representative in the primary election earlier this year. He added, “Why do you think we have a Trump administration right now? People are getting tired over it. People are getting tired of sold out.”

Some speakers who opposed the closure said they believed it was a direct response to the potential for the school to drop down to a Level 5 rating, where it would be placed into receivership.

Peggy Wiesenberg, a fellow with the Boston organization Quality Education for Every Student, said the school committee voted to close the school as a “nuclear option” to prevent a state takeover and corresponding loss of local control. “Don’t children and families...deserve more than being shown the emergency exits from the school?” she asked.

In September, state Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester identified the Mattahunt as one of two schools under review for possible state receivership. Following that, Boston Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang in November announced a plan to close the school and replace it with an early education center, an effort city officials say would build on successes the Mattahunt has had closing achievement gaps for kindergarten students.

“Superintendent Chang stressed that if BPS does not take bold action, Commissioner Mitchell Chester has the ability to move the school into Level 5 status immediately,” a Nov. 2 Boston Public Schools statement said.

During the meeting Tuesday, Boston schools officials said the potential of receivership was one component of their decision but not the sole factor.

Some board members expressed interest in drafting a letter to Chang offering the school department a chance to reconsider its decision. Chester, however, said he believed it would be an “absolute mistake to second-guess the school committee.

Chester added that despite additional funds spent to support a turnaround at the Mattahunt, “We’ve seen results at best stay flat, if not decline.”