[7] Several leaders of an area anti-busing group called the Concerned Parents Association[8] helped start Providence Day as an alternative to the newly integrated Charlotte-Mecklenburg public school system.

[9] The founders organized as the Southeast Community Corporation and began advertising for applications for fifth and sixth grade students in September 1970 on a "first-come, first-served basis".

[14] Also in 1972, Douglas C. Eveleth was named new headmaster, joining Providence Day from Cape Fear Academy in Wilmington, North Carolina.

[18] The athletic center built on the land was named in honor of Thomas Ridenhour, who served as president of the board of trustees for 13 years.

[21] The Dickson-Hemby Technology Center, housing computer labs, conference rooms, faculty offices and STEM classrooms was opened in 1998.

[22] In 2015, Providence Day launched a comprehensive fund-raising campaign that financed a new 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) academic center, campus gateway building and additional parking, while also increasing the size of the school's endowment and annual fund.

Fox objected to the assignment because the play includes many racial slurs and she "imagined her son’s mostly white class at the Providence Day School reading the dialogue out loud... her main concern was that the themes were too mature for the group and would foster stereotypes about Black families."