In the 1950s Rabbi Zev Zahavy and his wife Edith, a noted educator, founded the school with funding from Henry H.

[1] In 1976 Rabbi Arthur Schneier started Park-East's early childhood facility (a nursery school).

[2] In 1981, the nursery school merged with the East Side Hebrew Institute ("ESHI"), once one of the major Jewish institutions of the Lower East Side,[3] which had classes ranging from Nursery, Kindergarten and up to the 12th grade.

The school is noted for the strength of its mathematics, science, STEM and technology programs.

[5] Rabbi Arthur Schneier, the school's founder, serves as Dean.