[3] Founded in 1964, Spring Woods was built to accommodate the rapid population growth in Houston’s western suburbs and has grown into one of the oldest high schools in the district.

In May 1992, 25 12th grade students vandalized the school by spray painting racial slurs, placing the Confederate flag on the flagpole, placing a dead raccoon and a dead opossum in two empty lockers, and drew an image of a black person being impaled on a cross.

Student Mason Kalkofen felt compelled to wear a hazmat suit in December 2020 after he was obliged to take his final exams in person, because his mother had a high risk of contagion with COVID-19.

In 2007, Spring Woods had two students qualify for National Leadership Conference at New York City.

Students advanced through Area and State competitions to earn a spot at the National Leadership Conference.