Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan are closing the Silicon Valley school they founded nine years after it first opened.
The Primary School in Palo Alto announced that it will be shutting its doors at the end of the 2025–26 school year.
More than 500 students and 159 and staff will be affected by the closure.
The school said it had made the ‘difficult decision’ after ‘much deliberation’, although no explanation was provided.
However the closure of the progressive school has coincided with Zuckerberg’s MAGA makeover in recent months.
‘We have been deeply humbled by the support of so many during our journey,’ Jean-Claude Brizard, The Primary School Board Chair said.
‘Our community and partners have made a lasting impact on children and families, and helped us demonstrate what is possible when we think and operate differently.’
The Primary School was founded in 2016 with the intention of combining education, health care and social support.
It focused heavily on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) measures, which have fallen out of fashion in recent years with Zuckerberg seemingly joining the backlash.
Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan are closing the Silicon Valley school they founded
The Primary School announced that it will be shutting its doors at the end of the 2025–26 school year
‘Our vision is to build a model that can be effectively implemented in diverse communities and sustained on public funding,’ the school’s website states, also noting the challenges in education today.
‘Because of systemic racism, communities of color are disproportionately affected by these challenges and have the added burden of not being able to afford or access adequate services,’ it adds.
The school is attended by 543 students, 61 percent of whom are Latino according to the school.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative which funds the school said will make a $50 million investment over the next few years to help with the transition.
The decision to pull the plug comes as Zuckerberg has been moving away from his previous progressive views and instead cozying up to Donald Trump.
This has included axing fact checkers on Meta platforms in the name of stamping out censorship and ditching DEI initiatives in line with the president’s executive order for federal bodies.
The Meta boss has spent millions of dollars getting close to Trump in an effort to avoid paying billions in fines to the Federal Trade Commission and seeing his empire dismantled, a shocking new report revealed on Wednesday.
Zuckerberg has been in federal court this week, pushing back against the government’s allegation that his company committed anti-trust violations when it bought up rivals as a way to preserve its power and increase its bottom line.
The closure has coincided with Zuckerberg’s MAGA makeover which has seen him ditch his liberal politics
President Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg in the Oval Office in 2019. The two have become closer in recent months and the tech boss was invited to the president’s inauguration this year
The couple’s school was rooted in DEI principles of anti-racism, according to its website
If the judge rules against him, the 40-year-old could see his $1.3 trillion business empire broken into pieces.
In a frantic attempt to save his corporation, Zuckerberg reportedly turned to the president, visiting the White House three times.
He and his aides met with Trump, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other administration officials as part of his lobbying campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The FTC was seeking $30 billion to drop its case, much more than the $450 million Meta offered.
‘We haven’t been shy about explaining why it doesn’t make sense for the FTC to bring a case to trial that requires it to prove something every 17-year-old in America knows is absurd—that Instagram doesn’t compete with TikTok,’ Meta spokeswoman Dani Lever said.
Zuckerberg has also debuted a new look to go along with his updated political outlook.
He recently stunned guests at his wife’s 40th birthday by donning a plunging blue jumpsuit similar to one worn by Benson Boone during his Grammy’s performance and serenading the crowd.
While earlier this month, he stepped out in an all black tuxedo and black shades which he kept on throughout his appearance on the red carpet for the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony.
Zuckerberg has also gone from being a geek to a musclebound gym user who now enjoys hunting, mixed martial arts and ostentatious gold jewelry.
DailyMail.com has contacted The Primary School, Meta and the CZI for comment.
