The Woodward building was briefly used as swing space while Springbrook High School was being renovated.

Phase one construction of the new school was completed in summer 2024 just in time for Northwood students to move in.

In 2018, then-County Council President Hans Riemer and then-Montgomery County first lady Catherine Leggett led an effort to rename Charles W. Woodward High School after Rev.

Josiah Henson, who inspired the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, when the school reopens in 2027 [11].

[2] About 0.33 miles (0.53 km) north from the Woodward site is a county park and museum named for Henson.

To address these concerns, MCPS has begun a boundary study that will affect up to eight high school service areas: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walter Johnson, Walt Whitman, and the five high schools within the Downcounty Consortium.