Portsmouth Abbey School

Rhode Island · 31 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

Robert F. Kennedy b. 1925	Ted Kennedy b. 1932	Charlie Day b. 1976
Sean Spicer b. 1971	Peter Fitzgerald b. 1960	William A. Dembski b. 1960
Alvin Lucier b. 1931	John Gregory Dunne b. 1932	Christopher Buckley b. 1952
William Ruckelshaus b. 1932	Phil English b. 1956	Thomas Mullen b. 1974

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	29.8%	9
politician	20.8%	7
journalist	17.5%	6
screenwriter	12.4%	4
actor	11.3%	3
lawyer	10.8%	4
novelist	10.3%	4

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
novelist	3.7×	4
writer	3.3×	9
journalist	2.9×	6
lawyer	2.1×	4
screenwriter	2.1×	4
politician	1.8×	7

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Presidential Medal of Freedom	7.2%	3

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
Presidential Medal of Freedom	15.3×	3

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
United States senator	8.3%	3

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
United States senator	13.3×	3

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	9.7%	3

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.