Jamaica High School

New York · 53 alumni prominent enough for Wikipedia. Tables below need at least 3 people before a trait can appear.

All of history equally The last decade or two Recent decades The last half-century

The era pills change the weighting: "recent decades" (the default) counts someone who graduated around 2010 far more than someone from 1940.

Prominent alumni

Francis Ford Coppola b. 1939	Gertrude B. Elion b. 1918	Stephen Jay Gould b. 1941
Bob Beamon b. 1946	Josef von Sternberg b. 1894	Art Buchwald b. 1925
Paul Bowles b. 1910	Whitfield Diffie b. 1944	Ato Boldon b. 1973
Ann Druyan b. 1949	Sheila Jackson Lee b. 1950	Ashrita Fur b. 1954

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	15.1%	9
basketball player	11.8%	5
politician	11.4%	5
film producer	9.2%	5
journalist	9.0%	6
judge	8.1%	4
screenwriter	8.1%	5
actor	7.7%	5
film actor	7.5%	4
musician	6.3%	4
lawyer	5.7%	5
composer	5.4%	4
photographer	5.3%	3
university professor	5.3%	4
television actor	5.2%	3

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Occupation	× the national rate	People
judge	5.3×	4
photographer	4.8×	3
poet	3.9×	3
university professor	2.0×	4
film producer	1.9×	5
writer	1.9×	9
journalist	1.7×	6
screenwriter	1.5×	5

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	9.3%	7
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	8.3%	4

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this award as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Award	× the national rate	People
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	11.8×	4
Guggenheim Fellowship	4.8×	7

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	11.8%	5

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this sport as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Sport	× the national rate	People

Notes for the methodologically curious. Shares and multiples use recency weighting (people who came of age recently count more, per the era pills) and shrinkage: each school gets 20 virtual alumni at national rates, so a school with 4 noted alumni can't post a 200× multiple. High-school data on Wikidata is far sparser than college data — a missing trait usually means Wikipedia editors didn't record it, not that no alumnus has it.