High school outcomes
Occupations Employers Awards Sports

Madison West High School

Wisconsin · 44 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

Eric Heiden b. 1958Marc Webb b. 1974Tammy Baldwin b. 1962
Jim Doyle b. 1945Phil Hellmuth b. 1964Beth Heiden b. 1959
Chris Tallman b. 1970Dan Immerfall b. 1955John Paul Reynolds b. 1991
Dalia Mogahed b. 1974Awonder Liang b. 2003Cyrus Nowrasteh b. 1956

Occupations

Most common

Occupation % of its alumni People
politician
17.1%
9
film actor
16.4%
6
television actor
13.5%
5
American football player
9.6%
5
screenwriter
9.3%
4
actor
8.5%
3
basketball player
8.4%
4
writer
7.1%
3
sport cyclist
7.0%
3
film producer
6.8%
3
speed skater
6.0%
3
lawyer
5.1%
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
speed skater 47.7× 3
sport cyclist 37.1× 3
film producer 2.0× 3
screenwriter 2.0× 4
film actor 1.9× 6
politician 1.8× 9
television actor 1.6× 5

Offices held

Most common

Office % of its alumni People
member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
8.2%
4

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this office as noted high-school alumni nationally.
Office × the national ratePeople
member of the Wisconsin State Assembly 24.1× 4

Sports

Most common

Sport % of its alumni People
basketball
11.4%
5
American football
9.6%
5
cycle sport
9.5%
4
speed skating
6.0%
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
cycle sport 75.7× 4
speed skating 40.2× 3

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.