The school was founded in 1946, and moved to its current location on Elmgrove Avenue on the East Side of Providence in 1962.
The current dean of PHDS is Rabbi Menachem Weissman.
[citation needed] Rabbi Mordechai Nissel was the school's dean from March 1997 through July 2003.
[citation needed] It is affiliated with Orthodox Judaism, but enrolls students who are Jewish of other denominations as well.
[1] It is affiliated with New England Academy of Torah, a girls-only high school.