Chan Zuckerberg's Tuition-Free Primary School to Close After 2025-26 Academic Year

2 free Bay Area private schools backed by Mark Zuckerberg to close

The tuition-free schools created for underprivileged communities are slated to close in 2026.

Mark Zuckerberg-Backed Tuition-Free School To Close Amid Nationwide DEI Rollbacks​

The Primary School, a tuition-free private institution co-founded in 2016 by Priscilla Chan, the wife of Mark Zuckerberg, to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values, is set to close at the end of the 2025–2026 school year. According to a statement on its website announcing the closure, Chan and late educator Meredith Liu established the school, which has campuses in East Palo Alto and East Bay, CA, “on the guiding principle that ra…

Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Is Shutting Down a School for Low Income Families

Priscilla Chan's tuition-free educational institution for low-income families, The Primary School, is shutting down operations after nearly 10 years — a move that comes amid anti-diversity rollbacks at her husband Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. In a statement on its website, the Primary School didn't indicate why it was closing its East Bay and East Palo Alto locations at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year and said only that it was a "very difficul…

Mark Zuckerberg's Schools For Low-Income Families To Close Permanently

Mark Zuckerberg's Schools For Low-Income Families To Close Permanently - Palo Alto, CA - Silicon Valley campuses are closing as big tech rolls back several high-profile social initiatives.

Chan Zuckerberg-backed The Primary School in East Palo Alto to close next year

School officials declined to explain the reasons behind the closure

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Shutting Down Two Bay Area Schools It Launched In 2016

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has decided to shut down two tuition-free private schools it started for low-income students in 2016, giving no explanation, though kicking down $50 million to help with the students’ transition to new schools.Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan started their big-bucks philanthropy the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation in 2015, right after the birth of their first son, and several months after the…