Plainfield High School

New Jersey · 28 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

Margaret Bourke-White b. 1904	Milt Campbell b. 1933	Donald Martino b. 1931
Joe Black b. 1924	Eugene Monroe b. 1987	Justin Sears b. 1994
Zelda Popkin b. 1898	Ernest Robinson Ackerman b. 1863	Jonathan Draper b. 1952
John Marshall b. 1963	Jack Martin b. 1887	Donald Jones b. 1987

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
American football player	32.4%	6
politician	10.7%	4
baseball player	10.2%	4
writer	9.0%	4

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

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
Member of the State Senate of New Jersey	8.0%	3

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 rate	People
Member of the State Senate of New Jersey	29.5×	3

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	32.4%	6
baseball	10.2%	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

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.