Classical High School

Rhode Island · 45 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

Ronald Dworkin b. 1931	June Foray b. 1917	A. O. Scott b. 1966
Stanley Fish b. 1938	John Pastore b. 1907	George Macready b. 1899
S. J. Perelman b. 1904	John W. Dower b. 1938	Robin Green b. 1945
Bruce Sundlun b. 1920	Jeremy Peña b. 1997	Michael Kang b. 1970

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
politician	17.4%	9
journalist	17.1%	5
screenwriter	17.1%	4
lawyer	11.7%	9
actor	4.2%	3
writer	2.0%	9
historian	1.7%	4
judge	1.0%	3
jurist	0.9%	4
philosopher	0.7%	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
philosopher	2.2×	3
historian	1.9×	4
lawyer	1.8×	9
journalist	1.7×	5
screenwriter	1.6×	4

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	0.8%	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

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives	2.8%	3
Governor of Rhode Island	0.3%	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
member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives	34.0×	3
Governor of Rhode Island	18.8×	3

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.