[13] In 2006, Woodbury was the #1 ranked high school in Gloucester County by New Jersey Monthly and Philadelphia Magazine.

[26] The 1996 Group I state final was ended in five innings due to the mercy rule, with a 16–1 win against Cedar Grove giving the team a 23–1 record for the season.

[27] The boys' tennis team won the 2005 South, Group I state sectional championship with a 3–2 win over Schalick High School.

[34] In addition to its longstanding regular-season rivalry that dates back to 1915, Woodbury has defeated Paulsboro in the South Jersey Group I final in 1988, 1989 and 2009 (by a score of 16-0).

[37] The boys' basketball team won the Group I state championship in 2018, defeating Cresskill High School by a score of 60–58 in the tournament final.

Woodbury is one of only two boys' soccer teams in all of New Jersey to be recognized in each of the past seven years (Sparta High School is the other).

[42] Woodbury High School is responsible for halting the longest winning streak in New Jersey football history.

Woodbury took home the first golden trophy ever awarded to a public football program in New Jersey prep history.

Valentine is a Super Bowl-winning linebacker who played for the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers from 1979 to 1981 as a member of the "Steel Curtain" defense.

[47][48] The high school's football stadium was used by the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1987 as the home of their training camp.

All-time NFL greats Seth Joyner and Reggie White were among those on the 1987 roster who practiced at Woodbury High School.

[49] In October 2000, an independent mockumentary movie, Bottomfeeders, filmed scenes in front of the high school's main entrance for a presidential candidate's speech.