The William Woodward, Jr. Nursery School is a private, independent nursery school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The school is familiarly known as "Woodward."

Originally a cooperative school formed and run by a group of parents affiliated with New York Hospital, Woodward was founded as a private nursery school in 1961. Mrs. William Woodward, in honor of her late son, created an endowment to New York Hospital for the schools' purposes through The Woodward Charitable Foundation.

It was Mrs. Woodward’s vision to provide a permanent space where the school could run to serve the children of the "house staff" of the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. This mission gradually expanded to include Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), as well as the neighborhood community. In accordance with Mrs. Woodward's early mission, families of New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center and affiliated medical institutions of NYC continue to be members of the Woodward community.

Woodward is chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, licensed by the New York City Department of Health and is a member of the Independent Schools Admissions Association of Greater New York (ISAAGNY).