H.D. Woodson Senior High School
| Howard D. Woodson High School | |
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| School type | Public high school |
| Motto | The Woodson Way (In days to come, it will please us to remember this) |
| Established | 1972 |
| School district | District of Columbia Public Schools |
| Principal | Dr. Darrin Slade |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Enrollment | 660 (2016) |
| Campus size | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) |
Red Black Green |
| Mascot | Warriors |
Howard Dilworth Woodson High School is a secondary school in Washington, D.C. It serves grades 9 through 12, as part of the District of Columbia Public Schools. The school is located in the Deanwood neighborhood, at the intersection of 55th & Eads Streets NE. It primarily serves students in Ward 7.
Howard Dilworth Woodson High School is committed to providing a standards-driven curriculum in which all students achieve at high levels. Woodson has a strong academic legacy and a history of Impressive athletic achievement. In addition to offering a variety of extracurricular activities, including a National Honor Society, NJROTC Drill Team and Future Business Leaders of America. Woodson is also continuously increasing its STEM, AP and accelerated course offerings.
Named after Howard Dilworth Woodson (1877-1962), a structural engineer in the supervising architect's office for the Public Buildings Administration, Woodson was a supervising architect for the Universal Development and Loan Company, Inc. He was an active leader in the Deanwood, considered the far Northeast section of the city. Woodson was instrumental in urbanizing Deanwood by pushing to provide educational, redevelopment, and utility services to the area.
One of Woodson's primary focuses was to have a high school built in the Deanwood area in response to parents' demands to have their children attend school in their own area. Since the Deanwood area had no neighborhood high school, students had to travel to Eastern, Spingarn and/or Anacostia high schools daily.
Described as the first high-rise high school in the country, consisting of a seven floor tower sitting atop a plaza and a ground floor with a greenhouse on the rooftop, and elevators and escalators that took students and faculty up and down the tower, the new school which opened in 1972 at 55th and Eads streets NE. was named Howard Dilworth Woodson Senior High School.
Initially the size and shape for Woodson ran into obstacles with the planning boards, but H.D. Woodson's son, Granville Woodson, who was the chief of the DCPS buildings department at the time, made convincing arguments that the size and shape of the new school was exactly the point. It was his desire to make the school the focus of the community by making the building look as significant as possible.
When Woodson finally opened, it was praised as being a state-of-the-art campus that had a new look, new equipment, and specially recruited new teachers. As the years went by, due to building deterioration and lack of funds, it was extensively renovated from 2008 and reopened in 2011.
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