Hyde Park Academy High School

Illinois · 58 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

Amelia Earhart b. 1897	Paul Samuelson b. 1915	Herbie Hancock b. 1940
Gwendolyn Brooks b. 1917	Melinda Dillon b. 1939	King Von b. 1994
Steve Allen b. 1921	Minnie Riperton b. 1947	Paul Butterfield b. 1942
Mel Tormé b. 1925	L. Scott Caldwell b. 1950	Donny Hathaway b. 1945

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
musician	18.5%	10
singer	17.3%	9
songwriter	14.1%	5
actor	13.0%	8
rapper	10.9%	3
writer	10.1%	8
basketball player	10.1%	3
American football player	9.8%	6
television actor	9.5%	6
film actor	7.9%	5
journalist	7.6%	6
composer	7.3%	5
singer-songwriter	5.6%	3
stage actor	5.4%	3
pianist	5.0%	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
conductor	10.2×	3
rapper	5.9×	3
recording artist	5.4×	3
pianist	5.0×	3
jazz musician	3.9×	3
songwriter	3.8×	5
musician	3.0×	10
singer	2.4×	9
singer-songwriter	2.1×	3
composer	1.9×	5
stage actor	1.8×	3
journalist	1.8×	6
writer	1.6×	8
university professor	1.6×	3

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	5.7%	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
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	4.8×	4

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	11.3%	7
basketball	10.1%	3
baseball	2.9%	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.