High school outcomes
Occupations Employers Awards Sports

San Mateo High School

California · 31 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

Alicia Silverstone b. 1976Kris Kristofferson b. 1936Barry Bostwick b. 1945
Eric Dane b. 1972Peter Thiel b. 1967Dennis Haysbert b. 1954
Sam Francis b. 1923Merv Griffin b. 1925Debi Thomas b. 1967
Ted Dabney b. 1937Walter Afanasieff b. 1958Cal Tjader b. 1925

Occupations

Most common

Occupation % of its alumni People
film actor
19.4%
6
actor
16.1%
5
American football player
16.1%
5
composer
12.9%
4
television actor
12.9%
4
businessperson
12.9%
4
voice actor
9.7%
3
golfer
9.7%
3
singer
9.7%
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
golfer 10.8× 3
businessperson 3.5× 4
voice actor 3.2× 3
composer 3.1× 4
film actor 2.3× 6
singer 1.7× 3
television actor 1.5× 4

Sports

Most common

Sport % of its alumni People
American football
16.1%
5
golf
9.7%
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
golf 10.4× 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.