Columbia High School

New Jersey · 80 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

Paul Auster b. 1947	Elisabeth Shue b. 1963	Alfred Kinsey b. 1894
Teresa Wright b. 1918	Zach Braff b. 1975	Roy Scheider b. 1932
Richard Meier b. 1934	SZA b. 1989	Robert Sheckley b. 1928
Ahmed Best b. 1973	Paul R. Ehrlich b. 1932	Ibtihaj Muhammad b. 1985

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
singer	14.6%	7
actor	12.2%	11
songwriter	10.5%	4
singer-songwriter	10.3%	3
television actor	9.2%	9
composer	8.3%	4
soccer player	7.3%	3
film director	5.7%	4
lawyer	5.7%	6
journalist	5.6%	9
screenwriter	5.5%	8
film producer	5.3%	7
film actor	5.2%	8
writer	4.8%	13
basketball player	4.5%	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
producer	5.8×	3
psychologist	2.8×	3
singer-songwriter	2.2×	3
lawyer	2.0×	6
songwriter	1.9×	4
composer	1.8×	4
film producer	1.6×	7
novelist	1.5×	5
singer	1.5×	7
journalist	1.5×	9

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	1.1%	6
Guggenheim Fellowship	0.8%	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
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	3.8×	6

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
soccer	7.3%	3
basketball	4.5%	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.