Menlo Park’s TIDE Academy, opened in 2019, to close amid budget woes

Citing mounting budget pressures, the Sequoia Union High School District board voted unanimously Wednesday to close Menlo Park’s TIDE Academy, an institution that has been open for less than a decade in one of the nation’s wealthiest counties.

Officials said the decision comes as the district faces a projected $6 million structural deficit by the end of the school year, alongside declining enrollment and rising costs that they warned could otherwise lead to teacher layoffs and program cuts across other campuses.