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Which high schools produce the most (left), and where it's the biggest part of the school's identity (right). People who came of age recently weigh more than those from earlier eras.

Most alumni

School	People	vs. typical
Phillips Exeter Academy New Hampshire	75	3.6×
Scarsdale High School New York	23	4.4×
Stuyvesant High School New York	29	3.3×
Phillips Academy Massachusetts	56	2.9×
Hunter College High School New York	21	3.4×
Sidwell Friends School	16	3.3×
Bronx High School of Science New York	26	3.4×
Georgetown Day School	9	3.7×
Dalton School New York	10	3.6×
Lawrenceville School New Jersey	8	3.6×
Milton Academy Massachusetts	13	3.3×
St. Albans School	20	3.0×
Walt Whitman High School Maryland	9	3.3×
Park School of Baltimore Maryland	4	3.4×
Harvard-Westlake School California	7	1.8×
Garfield High School Washington	5	2.6×
East Lansing High School Michigan	4	2.8×
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy Pennsylvania	7	3.0×
Riverdale Country School New York	14	2.7×
Ethical Culture Fieldston School New York	26	2.6×
Winston Churchill High School Maryland	4	2.4×
Princeton High School New Jersey	4	2.6×
Deerfield Academy Massachusetts	12	2.2×
Regis High School New York	14	2.4×
Newton North High School Massachusetts	3	2.4×

Biggest part of the school's identity

Shares are shrunk toward the national rate for small counts, and each school must clear a size-scaled minimum count.

School	% of its noted alumni	People
Scarsdale High School New York	24.5%	23
Georgetown Day School	24.9%	9
Phillips Exeter Academy New Hampshire	10.6%	75
Dalton School New York	29.0%	10
Lawrenceville School New Jersey	28.6%	8
Park School of Baltimore Maryland	38.6%	4
Bronx High School of Science New York	16.6%	26
Hunter College High School New York	13.2%	21
Walt Whitman High School Maryland	26.3%	9
Stuyvesant High School New York	11.3%	29
Sidwell Friends School	13.9%	16
Milton Academy Massachusetts	19.2%	13
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy Pennsylvania	43.6%	7
St. Albans School	14.8%	20
Phillips Academy Massachusetts	8.4%	56
East Lansing High School Michigan	21.1%	4
Riverdale Country School New York	20.2%	14
Ethical Culture Fieldston School New York	18.3%	26
City and Country School New York	57.5%	3
Garfield High School Washington	12.4%	5
Princeton High School New Jersey	20.9%	4
National Cathedral School	28.4%	3
Regis High School New York	18.2%	14
Alexis I. duPont High School Delaware	29.7%	3
Winston Churchill High School Maryland	13.2%	4