High school outcomes
Occupations Employers Awards Sports

Sidwell Friends School

86 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

Bob Dylan b. 1941Nancy Reagan b. 1921Charles Lindbergh b. 1902
Gore Vidal b. 1925John Dos Passos b. 1896Walter Gilbert b. 1932
George Akerlof b. 1940Chelsea Clinton b. 1980Robert F. Kennedy Jr. b. 1954
Jon Bernthal b. 1976Anne Applebaum b. 1964Bill Nye b. 1955

Occupations

Most common

Occupation % of its alumni People
writer
20.2%
21
journalist
16.9%
16
film director
11.5%
8
university professor
10.4%
10
lawyer
10.1%
11
screenwriter
9.2%
9
actor
9.2%
9
basketball player
8.9%
5
television actor
5.8%
6
film actor
5.7%
6
politician
5.1%
10
businessperson
4.4%
5
director
4.3%
4
historian
4.0%
5
singer
3.9%
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 ratePeople
translator 11.7× 3
autobiographer 11.1× 4
historian 7.3× 5
children's writer 6.7× 3
playwright 5.8× 4
teacher 5.5× 3
university professor 5.4× 10
television director 5.0× 3
journalist 4.1× 16
poet 4.1× 4
writer 3.5× 21
director 3.3× 4
lawyer 3.1× 11
film director 2.9× 8
author 2.5× 3

Employers

Most common

Employer % of its alumni People
Harvard University
2.7%
4

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this employer as noted high-school alumni nationally.
Employer × the national ratePeople
Harvard University 6.3× 4

Awards

Most common

Award % of its alumni People
Guggenheim Fellowship
5.8%
9
Presidential Medal of Freedom
2.0%
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 ratePeople
Presidential Medal of Freedom 10.9× 4
Guggenheim Fellowship 5.4× 9

Offices held

Most common

Office % of its alumni People
United States representative
1.9%
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 ratePeople
United States representative 1.6× 4

Sports

Most common

Sport % of its alumni People
basketball
8.9%
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 ratePeople

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.