Zuckerberg-Funded Silicon Valley School to Shutter Next Year

The Primary School, a tuition-free private school with 543 students co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan, will shutter its doors after roughly a decade in operation.

The school, which has two locations in the San Francisco area, said in a note on its website that it will close after the 2025-2026 academic year. To sustain its legacy, the billionaire couple’s philanthropic organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, or CZI, will make a $50 million investment in the communities the nonprofit serves — East Palo Alto, Belle Haven and the East Bay — over the next few years.

Mark Zuckerberg, center, and Priscilla Chan, right.

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