[1] In 1935, the elders in the village with the support of shop owners started to raise funds for the construction of a school campus.

[1] The school was forced to close due to the Japanese Occupation, and re-opened on 8 October 1945 with about two hundred pupils.

With an increase in student population over the late 1940s and early 1950s, facilities were insufficient to meet the demands of the education system.

A collective sum of more than seventy thousand dollars was raised from enterprises and the general public and used to purchase a five-acre site along Yio Chu Kang Rd from Hock Ann Company.

The new school comprised a two-storey building with twelve classrooms, an office, a library, a store room, a visitors' lounge, a bookshop and a canteen.

[3] In the late 1980s, the enrolment to the school began to dwindle as many of the surrounding villages were gradually relocated under the redevelopment scheme to new HDB housing estates.

Since 2020, the Singapore government selected Pei Hwa as one of 28 schools for its Subject-Based Banding pilot programme.

[10] Students take English Language, Mathematics, Basic Mother Tongue and Computer Applications as compulsory subjects.