Woodrow Wilson High School has a history dating back to 1885, when a high school was first organized at The Academy on Glasgow Street. The school moved several times, first to Green Street in 1886, then to High Street in 1919 where it was renamed Woodrow Wilson High School. In 1955, it moved again to Willett Drive. In 1993, the Portsmouth School Board decided to move Woodrow Wilson High School to the Elmhurst Lane site, formerly known as Manor High School. The school became the “New Generation” of Cradock Admirals, Manor Mustangs, and Wilson Presidents. In 2005, the building on Willet Drive was turned over to the city and was later torn down in 2009. The school’s colors were changed back to the original royal blue and orange at the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year.
The yearbooks of Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia, were first called ‘The Student’, but were traditionally titled ‘The President’ since 1924. However, in 1994, this custom ceased, and since then, the yearbooks have been published under an array of different titles, updated annually. This free online collection is incomplete but is still in the process of being scanned. Hopefully, additional volumes will be added soon. These yearbooks were loaned by the Portsmouth Public Library to be scanned by the Library of Virginia. If the title and year is linked, then the yearbook is currently online for free. Ancestry has the years of 1921-1985 in their yearbook collection.
- 1921 The Student
- 1922 The Student
- 1923 The President
- 1924 The President
- 1925 The President
- 1926 The President
- 1927 The President
- 1928 The President
- 1929 The President
- 1930 The President
- 1931 The President
- 1932 The President
- 1933 The President
- 1934 The President
- 1935 The President
- 1936 The President
- 1937 The President
- 1938 The President
- 1939 The President
- 1940 The President
- 1941 The President
- 1942 The President
- 1943 The President
- 1944 The President
- 1945 The President
- 1946 The President
- 1947 The President
- 1948 The President
- 1949 The President
- 1950 The President
- 1951 The President
- 1952 The President
- 1953 The President
- 1954 The President
- 1955 The President
- 1956 The President
- 1957 The President
- 1958 The President
- 1959 The President
- 1960 The President
- 1961 The President
- 1962 The President
- 1963 The President
- 1964 The President
- 1965 The President
- 1966 The President
- 1967 The President
- 1968 The President
- 1969 The President
- 1970 The President
- 1971 The President
- 1972 The President
- 1973 The President
- 1974 The President
- 1975 The President
- 1976 The President
- 1977 The President
- 1978 The President
- 1979 The President
- 1980 The President
- 1981 The President
- 1982 The President
- 1983 The President
- 1984 The President
- 1985 The President
- 1986 The President
- 1987 The President
- 1988 The President
- 1989 The President
- 1990 The President
- 1991 The President
- 1992 The President
- 1993 The President
- 1994 A New Generation
- 1995 Dare to be Different
- 1996 Making the Headlines
- 1997 Reaching for the Stars
- 1998 Out of the World
- 1999 A Different View
- 2000
- 2001 two thousand one
