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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	40	4.0×
Phillips Academy Massachusetts	20	2.8×
Stuyvesant High School New York	13	3.5×
Hunter College High School New York	11	4.0×
Bronx High School of Science New York	11	3.3×
DeWitt Clinton High School New York	15	2.8×
Horace Mann School New York	11	4.5×
Georgetown Day School	6	6.9×
Saint Ann's School New York	5	4.4×
Hotchkiss School Connecticut	8	3.0×
Beverly Hills High School California	8	2.2×
Scarsdale High School New York	6	3.6×
Ethical Culture Fieldston School New York	9	3.4×
Palo Alto High School California	6	4.0×
Choate Rosemary Hall Connecticut	6	2.9×
Francis W. Parker School Illinois	4	4.9×
St. Paul's School New Hampshire	8	3.9×
Oak Park and River Forest High School Illinois	6	3.8×
The Lovett School Georgia	4	5.7×
Newton North High School Massachusetts	4	4.4×
Harvard-Westlake School California	4	2.2×
Milton Academy Massachusetts	4	3.5×
Erasmus Hall High School New York	7	2.3×
Millburn High School New Jersey	4	6.2×
Berkeley High School California	6	2.5×

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
Georgetown Day School	16.2%	6
Millburn High School New Jersey	19.7%	4
West High School Utah	21.0%	4
Packer Collegiate Institute New York	21.1%	4
The Lovett School Georgia	15.4%	4
Livermore High School California	18.1%	4
Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy New York	31.4%	3
Indian Springs School Alabama	22.2%	3
Provo High School Utah	15.7%	4
City and Country School New York	23.2%	3
Francis W. Parker School Illinois	11.0%	4
Miss Porter's School Connecticut	13.0%	5
Scarborough Country Day School, New York New York	30.5%	3
Salinas High School California	19.1%	3
Horace Mann School New York	7.9%	11
Saint Ann's School New York	8.1%	5
Newton North High School Massachusetts	9.3%	4
North Miami Beach High School Florida	11.4%	3
Gunn High School California	9.6%	4
Abbot Academy Massachusetts	29.4%	5
Phillips Exeter Academy New Hampshire	5.8%	40
Hunter College High School New York	6.5%	11
Deering High School Maine	14.5%	3
Palo Alto High School California	7.4%	6
Darlington School Georgia	17.0%	3