 In March 2010, Freshman Grace Choi was ranked first in Texas in girls' golf.In April 2014, Seniors Barrett Blaker and Javier Gonzalez were ranked 12th out of hundreds of policy urban debate teams across the country at the Urban Debate National Championships in Washington D.C.

From the school's beginning, a Junior ROTC program has been part of Woodrow's high school program.In the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, the school had the largest JROTC program in the nation, with 16 different companies and an ROTC band; a May 1941 article declared the program "largest of its kind in the world."