The school was renamed effective July 1, 2018, as the former namesake was a general in the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War. The impetus for the renaming was the Charlottesville car attack that occurred the previous year in the backdrop of the Unite the Right rally. All nine DISD board members agreed to the renaming. The school community was to choose a new name, and it was required to be substantially different from the previous one. There were fifty proposals submitted, including one with Henderson's name; in December 2017 the community selected the current name, based on the school's Mockingbird Street location. By June 2018 the new signage was installed.