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It is a part of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), serving students from the communities including Chantilly and Centreville as well as areas with Herndon addresses in grades 9–12. Opened in 2000, it is the head of the Westfield High School Pyramid in Cluster VIII. Westfield's main building has the same layout as South County High School (Fairfax County, Virginia). At 3,260 students, it is one of the largest four year high schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The school was listed as the 46th best high school in the United States by Newsweek magazine in 2002 and 27th in the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area by The Washington Post in 2006 due to a high percentage of students enrolled in Westfield's Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Westfield shares a business partnership with Northrop Grumman's business IT group that entails sharing of buildings, as well as financial donations and gifts of supplies. It also shares an education partnership with Centreville Presbyterian Church to improve student achievement.

Regulation 1320.1 (also known as Guidelines for Restricting Interruptions to Instructional Time—Middle and High Schools) was implemented on April 21, 2004, as an FCPS directive. However, students soon learned that a clause in Regulation 1320.1 prohibiting assemblies by business sponsored groups prevented plans for the concert from being carried out. On Monday, November 15, students began a Taking Back Tuesday movement advocating a schoolwide skip day on the day of the cancelled concert, but it dissolved after Campbell's schoolwide address that afternoon. In February 2005, FCPS clarified its policy stating that the regulation on pep rallies was not meant to limit school spirit, but the concert remained cancelled.

Westfield received media attention in the mid 2000s because two murders perpetrated by alumni occurred within one year. Michael Kennedy, who suffered from schizophrenia, shot and killed Master Police Officer Michael Garbarino and Detective Vicky Armel of the Fairfax County Police Department on May 8, 2006, in an attack on the Sully District Police Station, less than one half mile from Westfield. On April 5, 2007, Kennedy's father was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of drug possession and six counts of weapons charges. The indictment mentioned charges that Kennedy's father illegally possessed marijuana, which made it illegal for him to possess the weapons or ammunition used by Kennedy in the police station attack. The 2007 Virginia Tech massacre committed by gunman Seung Hui Cho, an alumnus of Westfield High School, killed thirty two people, including two Westfield alumnae, Erin Peterson and Reema Samaha. Although Cho's motivation for the shooting is unknown, his suicide note mentioned vague references to his emotional turmoil. While a few students recall instances of Cho being teased and mocked at Westfield, most left him alone and were not aware of his anger. It is unknown if or how much his experience at Westfield contributed to his mental breakdown. Journalists from the international media arrived at Westfield the day Cho's identity was announced, prompting a ban on reporters at six athletic games due "the impact on school children, academics and other important activities." Criticism of the school's learning environment also prompted students and alumni to rally against the media's biased reporting by emphasizing their many achievements. As a way to honor the two deceased alumnae, the Erin Peterson Fund and Reema J. Samaha Memorial Scholarship Fund were established with the school's support to award scholarships for graduating seniors who best exemplify their personalities.

In 2008, incidents involving Westfield alumni purchasing and distributing heroin made local headlines. The first was the death of 19 year old Alicia Lannes, a graduate of Westfield in 2007, as a result of heroin overdose, which helped spark a federal investigation on heroin and other hard drugs and traffickers in the area. The second incident occurred on November 20, when ten young adults and teenagers (six of them being Westfield High School alumni, and others attending Virginia Commonwealth University) were arrested as part of the shutdown of a major heroin ring responsible for the deaths of multiple students from Westfield and other local high schools. It is believed that the death of multiple students (including Alicia Lannes) and the heroin ring were linked. The same design was later used for the construction of South County Secondary School in the southern part of Fairfax County, but former Westfield principal Dale Rumberger denied claims of establishing a "mini Westfield" despite becoming the principal at South County after leaving Westfield in 2004. The school campus occupies and is composed of the main building (the "school"), the sports complex including all fields, and the parking lots. The main building currently comprises two levels, with seven main hallways for the classrooms on each level. There are also 13 trailers located around the school. The hallways are listed alphabetically from A G, and an additional hallway, "R" (for "renovation"), was added onto the school for use beginning in the 2006–07 school year. The heart of the school is the library and media center which currently holds over 21,000 books with room for an additional 4,000. There are over 40 computer stations for student use in the library. There were four computer labs in Westfield, two on each level, making it among the most technologically advanced of any FCPS high school at the time it was built. The computer labs are now used as regular classrooms as every student is now provided with a laptop. There were 1,545 computers at Westfield as of June 2006. Beyond the main building, there is the sprawling Westfield Sports Complex, including the football stadium, a baseball field, a softball field, six tennis courts, a track which encircles a field for track and field, soccer, and lacrosse, and multiple practice fields. Adjacent to the complex is the Cub Run RECenter, home to Westfield's swim and dive team, although it is not part of the school.

In the mid 2000s, Westfield was often criticized as grossly overcrowded. By the 2004–2005 academic year, the school was over its capacity by 25 percent, and 26 trailers filled the parking lot originally designated for faculty and staff along with additional ground space surrounding the school's main building. In April 2003, FCPS proposed a bond referendum for the construction of a 24 room addition to Westfield's main building to alleviate the rapid growth of the student population. The bond referendum provided for the construction of the new addition at a cost of $8.7 million. The bond was approved in November of the same year, and construction for the massive new wing began in summer of 2005. Construction was completed in time for the 2006–2007 school year, increasing capacity to 3,100. It has two levels and a basement. located in the unincorporated community of Reston. Due to this boundary adjustment Westfield's enrollment has declined and is currently considered under capacity with a 2013–2014 student membership of 2,750.

Northern Virginia's New Life Christian Church held services at Westfield after relocating its main campus from Stone Middle School before building and moving to the Zone. Three services are held each Sunday with an attendance of 1,500. In 2003, the Work Awareness and Transition (WAT) class opened a branch of the Apple Federal Credit Union for students and faculty. The branch is operated by student tellers in WAT. Hope Chinese School, a Chinese language school in the Washington area, designated Westfield as the site of its Chantilly campus in fall 2006. Chinese language and cultural elective classes are held on Sunday afternoons in the new building addition. The local area pro women's softball team Washington Glory will call the Westfield Sports Complex home for its 2008 season. The Glory played the 2007 season at George Mason University's softball complex which is undergoing a renovation during the 2008 season. The stadium will have increased seating for not only the Glory but also for the Virginia State Softball Championships which will also be hosted at the site along with baseball, lacrosse, soccer and track.

Westfield's faculty is divided into 10 departments: English, ESOL (English for speakers of other languages), Fine and Performing Arts, Foreign Language, Health and Physical Education, Mathematics, Career and Technical Education (CTE), Science, Social Studies, and Special Education. As one of 16 Fairfax County high schools that offer the Advanced Placement (AP) Program, Westfield will offer 22 of the 32 AP courses that are offered by the College Board as of the 2007–2008 school year. (The other 8 high schools are designated for the International Baccalaureate Program). In addition, the curriculum also offers Honors courses to prepare students for the rigorous workload associated with AP courses. Fairfax County's academy system also allows Westfield students to take alternate classes at Chantilly, Edison, Fairfax, Marshall, and West Potomac high schools with transportation provided. When the school opened, Westfield possessed the newest computer labs and electronic equipment in the county. Westfield's Aerospace Science class is the only one of its kind in FCPS, and its Television Production Lab is the most advanced of any FCPS school. Westfield also offers among the highest number of business related, technology, and computer classes for any FCPS school, including its notable cooperative education program offered by the Professional and Technical Studies department. The photography and computer graphics labs are among the most complete and advanced in FCPS and provide an extensive array of equipment available for student use. The music technology lab is designed for music theory, and has special software for composing music. The Foreign Language department offers seven languages for students to study: American Sign Language, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Latin, and Spanish. Human Anatomy and Physiology is a unique course offered for Westfield science students who are interested in pursuing a career in the medical field and would like a more in depth coverage on human systems than AP Biology. Westfield's English department provides a number of unique elective courses such as forensics and debate, film study, and a course on William Shakespeare. The Fine and Performing Arts department produced a news program which broadcasts information and upcoming events at or involving Westfield over the school's televisions on a daily basis.

Recently the Bulldogs basketball team has achieved success especially from 2015 to 2016. In 2015, the Bulldogs went on a winning streak advancing to the state championship for the first time in school history before losing to the Colonial Forge Eagles 47–46 ending their season at 27–2. 2016 brought a new story as the Bulldogs once again advanced to the state title game where they would face the Oscar Smith Tigers in a rematch of that season's football championship won by Westfield 49–42 in 3OT. This time however, it wasn't close as Westfield defeated Oscar Smith 74–56 win their first state championship for basketball in school history. The team finished the season 26–3.

Since the showing of its first production, an original creation of The Glass Menagerie, Westfield's theatre arts department has received numerous distinctions. Productions of Godspell and Fiddler on the Roof won Best Musical at the National Capital Area Cappies awards, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead won Best Play. Playwright Sheila Callaghan's Star Crossed Lovers, a one act rendition of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, was conceived by director Scott Pafumi and premiered at Westfield in 2004. In 2007/08, the department's production of The Wiz was the subject of an ABC News 20/20 special entitled "Drama High" which aired on December 15, 2008. In 2010/11, Westfield's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat received a record 21 Cappies nominations. The show won 10 Cappies, including Best Musical, Best Song, and Lead Actor in a Musical. Westfield Theatre has also been invited to perform its own renditions of Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest at the Folger Shakespeare Library, an internationally renowned stage and research center devoted to the life and works of William Shakespeare. During the spring of 2017, the spring musical Legally Blonde was nominated for 14 Cappies awards. Two years later, the school put on the high school edition of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages as their Cappies show, earning a total of 24 nominations which is also the highest number of nominations earned in all of the Cappies program. At the Cappies Gala that year, they won a total of 8 awards including best musical. In the 2019–2020 school year, Enza Giannone Hosig became the new theater teacher at Westfield.

The Band program, is composed of ten performance groups including the Wind Symphony, the Symphonic Band, the Concert Band, the Jazz Ensemble, the after school Jazz Band, two Percussion Ensembles, the Color Guard, the Drumline, and the Marching Bulldogs. Participating in the performance groups are over 200 students and three instructors. Westfield's band has been named a Virginia Honor Band twelve times for both its marching band and concert bands. The Westfield Percussion Ensemble has performed, by invitation, at a national festival. NSO director Leonard Slatkin has also visited Westfield in 2007 as a guest conductor. Both jazz bands have received awards at the Chantilly Invitational Jazz Festival, where several students were also named for the All Star Band, including Chandler Comer on trombone, Nicholas Serbu on trumpet, and Joseph Beddoes on drumset. The Jazz Ensemble has won the Chantilly Jazz Festival in 2014 and 2016. The jazz band recently had the help of Alan Baylock, Chief Arranger for the United States Air Force jazz band The Airmen of Note, who composed the piece "Torque" specifically for the Westfield Jazz Band. Both the concert bands and jazz ensembles have traveled to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall. The bands have received top awards twice at Myrtle Beach, at a Disney competition in Orlando, Florida, and at a competition in Atlanta, Georgia. Marching Band, was noted by local TV station WUSA 9 for its exemplary talent. The Marching Band performs its field show during the halftime of football games and participates in various competitions throughout the marching season. There are also color and winter guards that perform with the marching band and in regional tournaments. In 2013, the marching band was selected as one of 12 high school bands to perform in the 2014 Tournament of Roses parade. It became the first Fairfax County public high school to participate, and only the third Virginia public high school to march in the 125 years of the parade. Upon this achievement, the band has appeared on the news programs of ABC, CBS, and NBC. In addition, the band has been reported on by several newspapers including the Washington Post.

The Westfield High School Choral Program consists of students in four different choral ensembles, spanning grades 9 through 12. The choirs have performed for the Governor of Virginia, for an audience of hundreds of music educators at the Virginia Music Educators State Conference, and have performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and at Strathmore Hall through a partnership with The Washington Chorus. The orchestra includes beginning, freshman, concert, chamber, and symphony orchestras. The Marching Bulldogs participated in the 2014 Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 2014, in Pasadena, California.

Honor societies at Westfield include: National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, National English Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, French National Honor Society, German National Honor Society, Japanese Honor Society, National Latin Honor Society, History Honor Society, Mathematics Honor Society, Science Honor Society, Marketing Honor Society, Tri M, International Thespian Society, and Quill and Scroll. Both Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA PBL) and DECA have their own chapters for business and marketing students. Westfield High School also has a TSA (Technology Student Association) Chapter that began in 2012. There are several academic teams competing in regional tournaments as part of the Virginia High School League (VHSL). Westfield's It's Academic team annually competes in tournaments hosted by the VHSL and NBC 4 as well as tournaments hosted by other area schools. The team won its first television match on NBC 4 in the show's 44th season after only its third appearance. The Science Club holds after school experiments that all students can participate in, and the Science Olympiad team annually competes in the Division C state tournament and has won several medals. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes annually sponsors See You at the Pole for students and faculty. The Westfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In 2019, the Westfield High School Politics Club held its first meeting on October 10. The Westfield Politics Club is a catch all club for students of all political backgrounds and interests open for discussion, discovery, and debate. In 2020, the Westfield Politics Club invited guest speakers Delegate Dan Helmer, Senator Dick Saslaw, and Congressman Gerry Connolly to speak about their experience in working in government and politics. Sponsored by the Herndon Dulles Chamber of Commerce and hosted by Westfields Marriott, the seminar has been well received by the community, winning a Blue Ribbon Award for Outstanding Event. The seminar aims at educating students about the dilemma of making ethical decisions by inviting guest speakers from the local community speak to students on race, sexuality, prejudice, and other issues.