[citation needed] The school features numerous extracurricular activities, including Debate, US Army JROTC, and interscholastic and intramural athletics.

After college, he returned as a Teacher, Mentor and Coach at Northwestern taking the basketball and baseball teams to PSL championships and produced several outstanding athletes who went on to play professionally.

Alumni also includes some of the students who would go on to help shape the legendary rhythm and blues label Motown Records, namely Mary Wells and James Jamerson.

[8] For more than one hundred years, Northwestern High School has produced many outstanding student athletes who have excelled at the collegiate level and beyond.

To this day, Northwestern remains the only Detroit public high school to win a state team championship in the sport of swimming and diving.

[13] The Michigan high school sports archives also document Northwestern's MHSAA championship titles in tennis (1927), and cross country (1929).