The Primary School, a nonprofit and educational program for low-income students co-founded by Priscilla Chan, was shut down this past June and won’t reopen for the upcoming school year. Approximately 540 children were enrolled at the Primary School’s two campuses in the Bay Area. The Washington Post // Getty Images The Primary School campus in East Palo Alto, Calif. in 2025. A spokesperson for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative maintained in a statement to the newspaper that it was the school’s board decision to close. Primary School Board Chair Jean-Claude Brizard also said that the Initiative plans to donate $50 million to East Palo Alto and the East Bay organizations over the next few years.