John Dewey High School

New York · 32 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

Spike Lee b. 1957	Robert Sapolsky b. 1957	Elliot Goldenthal b. 1954
John Ortiz b. 1968	JTG b. 1984	Larry Charles b. 1956
Angie Martinez b. 1971	Michelle Ye b. 1980	Gregory Crewdson b. 1962
Colin Quinn b. 1959	Donald Margulies b. 1954	Geoffrey Owens b. 1961

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
actor	28.1%	9
screenwriter	18.8%	6
television actor	15.6%	5
film actor	12.5%	4
writer	9.4%	3
lawyer	9.4%	3
musician	9.4%	3
photographer	9.4%	3
film director	9.4%	3
journalist	9.4%	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
photographer	10.1×	3
screenwriter	3.5×	6
film director	2.4×	3
actor	2.2×	9
journalist	1.9×	3
musician	1.9×	3
television actor	1.8×	5
lawyer	1.8×	3
film actor	1.6×	4

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.