South Boston High School

Massachusetts · 9 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

Whitey Bulger b. 1929	Stephen F. Lynch b. 1955	Raymond Flynn b. 1939
Joe Moakley b. 1927	John E. Kerrigan b. 1908	Kevin Weeks b. 1956
William J. Foley b. 1887	John Ferruggio b. 1925	Forrester Blanchard Washington b. 1887

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
politician	55.6%	5

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
politician	2.7×	5

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives	44.4%	4
member of the State Senate of Massachusetts	44.4%	4

Most overrepresented

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

Office	× the national rate	People
member of the State Senate of Massachusetts	130.1×	4
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives	64.4×	4

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.