High school outcomes
Occupations Employers Awards Sports

Cooley High School

Michigan · 29 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

Marshall Rosenberg b. 1934Obie Trice b. 1977S. Epatha Merkerson b. 1952
Roy Tarpley b. 1964Willie Green b. 1981Carl Craig b. 1969
Arthur Frank McKinlay b. 1932Mike Ilitch b. 1929John McKinlay b. 1932
Ricky Lawson b. 1954Barbara Tarbuck b. 1942Anita Darian b. 1927

Occupations

Most common

Occupation % of its alumni People
musician
22.4%
5
songwriter
17.2%
4
basketball player
16.9%
4
American football player
12.1%
3
composer
11.4%
3
jazz musician
11.4%
3
baseball player
8.2%
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
jazz musician 7.2× 3
songwriter 3.7× 4
musician 3.0× 5
composer 2.3× 3

Sports

Most common

Sport % of its alumni People
basketball
16.9%
4
American football
12.1%
3
baseball
10.7%
4

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.