High school outcomes
Occupations Employers Awards Sports

Oberlin Academy

23 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

Sinclair Lewis b. 1885George Herbert Mead b. 1863Edmonia Lewis b. 1844
John Langalibalele Dube b. 1871Jacob Dolson Cox b. 1828Robert Maynard Hutchins b. 1899
John Mercer Langston b. 1829Richard Theodore Greener b. 1844Luther Gulick b. 1865
Katharine Wright b. 1874Benjamin F. Randolph b. 1820Eloise Bibb Thompson b. 1880

Occupations

Most common

Occupation % of its alumni People
writer
24.0%
4
teacher
22.3%
4
journalist
20.4%
3
university professor
18.9%
3
lawyer
17.5%
6
politician
17.2%
6
poet
16.0%
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 ratePeople
teacher 2.0× 4
poet 1.8× 3

Employers

Most common

Employer % of its alumni People
Howard University
7.2%
3

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this employer as noted high-school alumni nationally.
Employer × the national ratePeople
Howard University 9.9× 3

Sports

Most common

Sport % of its alumni People
American football
17.1%
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 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.