Central High School

Pennsylvania · 39 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

Noam Chomsky b. 1928	Hilary Putnam b. 1926	Sherman Hemsley b. 1938
Louis J. Mordell b. 1888	Norman Fell b. 1924	Louis Fischer b. 1896
Herbert Wilf b. 1931	Harry Vandiver b. 1882	Reuven Amitai b. 1955
Phil Walker b. 1956	William Sartain b. 1843	Leo Zippin b. 1905

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
university professor	23.1%	9
mathematician	15.4%	6
American football player	10.3%	4
journalist	10.3%	4
architect	7.7%	3
military officer	7.7%	3
physician	7.7%	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
mathematician	26.8×	6
architect	17.4×	3
physician	10.5×	3
university professor	6.9×	9
military officer	4.0×	3
journalist	2.2×	4

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	12.8%	5

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
Guggenheim Fellowship	6.5×	5

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	15.4%	6

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.