Pershing High School

Michigan · 41 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

Steve Smith b. 1969	Tim Meadows b. 1961	J Dilla b. 1974
Kevin Willis b. 1962	Spencer Haywood b. 1949	Levi Stubbs b. 1936
Mel Daniels b. 1944	Brenda Lawrence b. 1954	Keith Appling b. 1992
Kay Felder b. 1995	Ralph Simpson b. 1949	Abdul "Duke" Fakir b. 1935

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
basketball player	43.9%	18
American football player	24.4%	10
baseball player	9.8%	4
singer	9.8%	4
musician	7.3%	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
basketball player	3.5×	18
singer	1.8×	4
musician	1.6×	3

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	43.9%	18
American football	26.8%	11
baseball	9.8%	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 rate	People
basketball	3.4×	18

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.