Topeka High School

Kansas · 35 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

Charles Curtis b. 1860	Rex Stout b. 1886	Coleman Hawkins b. 1904
Nancy Kassebaum b. 1932	Dean Smith b. 1931	Ben Lerner b. 1979
Travis Schuldt b. 1974	Aaron Douglas b. 1899	Gordon Jump b. 1932
Karl Menninger b. 1893	Jane Heap b. 1883	Jayne Houdyshell b. 1953

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
actor	16.7%	4
university professor	11.1%	3
television actor	11.1%	3
film actor	11.1%	3
lawyer	10.3%	5
novelist	9.3%	3
politician	8.2%	4
editor	8.1%	3
psychiatrist	5.7%	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 rate	People
psychiatrist	43.4×	3
editor	11.7×	3
novelist	3.3×	3
university professor	3.2×	3
lawyer	2.0×	5

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.