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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	128	3.5×
Phillips Academy Massachusetts	89	3.3×
Stuyvesant High School New York	42	3.4×
Bronx High School of Science New York	34	3.2×
Saint Ann's School New York	16	3.9×
Scarsdale High School New York	21	3.6×
Milton Academy Massachusetts	23	4.2×
Sidwell Friends School	21	3.5×
Hunter College High School New York	20	2.3×
Horace Mann School New York	34	3.4×
Choate Rosemary Hall Connecticut	20	2.7×
Beverly Hills High School California	22	1.8×
Ethical Culture Fieldston School New York	31	3.1×
Berkeley High School California	16	2.6×
DeWitt Clinton High School New York	52	2.4×
Harvard-Westlake School California	12	1.8×
High School of Art and Design New York	20	2.5×
Collegiate School New York	17	3.1×
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School New York	14	1.1×
Palo Alto High School California	12	2.7×
Riverdale Country School New York	15	3.0×
Deerfield Academy Massachusetts	16	2.1×
North Hollywood High School California	12	2.0×
Northfield Mount Hermon School Massachusetts	15	2.1×
Georgetown Day School	8	3.0×

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
Milton Academy Massachusetts	27.2%	23
Saint Ann's School New York	22.6%	16
Scarsdale High School New York	20.4%	21
Sidwell Friends School	20.2%	21
Phillips Exeter Academy New Hampshire	15.3%	128
Horace Mann School New York	21.5%	34
Stuyvesant High School New York	15.6%	42
Phillips Academy Massachusetts	14.4%	89
Bronx High School of Science New York	15.9%	34
Collegiate School New York	20.1%	17
Ethical Culture Fieldston School New York	18.8%	31
Riverdale Country School New York	20.2%	15
Georgetown Day School	21.5%	8
Concord Academy Massachusetts	24.3%	10
Commonwealth School Massachusetts	26.0%	7
Brookline High School Massachusetts	21.2%	14
Portsmouth Abbey School Rhode Island	29.9%	9
Ramaz School New York	24.9%	6
Choate Rosemary Hall Connecticut	14.6%	20
St. Paul's School New Hampshire	19.5%	18
Palo Alto High School California	16.3%	12
Miss Porter's School Connecticut	30.1%	13
John L. Miller Great Neck North High School New York	20.5%	12
City and Country School New York	44.9%	7
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School New York	20.8%	18