- - Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Are Reportedly Running a Private School on Their Palo Alto Property

Emily BurackAugust 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have been running a private school called BBS, formerly called Bicken Ben, at their Palo Alto home.

Journalist Heather Knight reported in the New York Times today, “Mark Zuckerberg has been denounced after a school he and his wife established for children from low-income families in East Palo Alto announced in April that it will be shutting down, leaving students and their parents confused and angry. But it turns out that a mile away, behind a high wall of hedges, the billionaire and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were running a private school out of a house at their Palo Alto compound for two of their daughters and a dozen other children. And they were doing it in violation of city code.”

The couple, which moved to Crescent Park in Palo Alto in 2011, have three daughters, and two reportedly attend the in-home school. Aaron McLear, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and Chan said the couple’s children were part of a home-school pod, and it was not a private school. In addition to Zuckerberg and Chan’s two children, there are 12 other children in the school; McLear added the other students did not pay any tuition. The Times added, “The state documents refer to the site as a private school, but Mr. McLear disputed that description, saying the affidavits did not allow for a distinction…Whatever the label, the family is moving the endeavor to a different location out of Crescent Park, he said.”

Palo Alto bans businesses from operating in private homes “if the employees do not live there and if it generates more traffic than a normal home would. Such a use would require special city approval, which Mr. Zuckerberg did not obtain,” per the Times.

Zuckerberg and Chan own property in Washington, D.C., Palo Alto, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and Hawaii.

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