Maple Heights High School

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Maple Heights High School
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Maple Heights High School
1 Mustang Way

Maple Heights
,
(Cuyahoga County)
,
Ohio
44137

United States
Coordinates 41°24′45″N81°33′40″W / 41.41250°N 81.56111°W / 41.41250; -81.56111 Coordinates: 41°24′45″N81°33′40″W / 41.41250°N 81.56111°W / 41.41250; -81.56111
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Type Public, Coeducational high school
SuperintendentCharles Keenan [1]
PrincipalShay Price [1]
Teaching staff59.00 (FTE) [2]
Grades 9 – 12
Enrollment1,089 (2018–19) [2]
Student to teacher ratio18.46 [2]
Color(s) Maroon and White [1]   
Athletics conference Lake Erie League [1]
Team nameMustangs [1]
RivalBedford,Cleveland Heights
Accreditation North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [3]
Website https://www.mapleschools.com/573701_3

Maple Heights High School is a public high school located in Maple Heights, Ohio, southeast of Cleveland, Ohio. It graduated its first class in 1925. It was the first high school in America to offer a credit class in popular culture studies, created in 1975. It also offered a broadcast journalism class, Television Journalism, which produced a long-running public-access television cable TV program entitled Maple Schools Today, which ran on several Cleveland Ohio cable outlets from 1984 through 2002.

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A completely new high school building opened in 2013, replacing one that dated back 90 years. A new stadium with artificial turf and an all-weather track opened in 2014.

Athletics

Maple Heights High School athletics is best known for the success of the boys' wrestling teams. They won 10 state championships in a 19-year period from 1956–1974. They were led by legendary coach Mike Milkovich. Milkovich played a role in a sports brawl that led eventually to a U.S. Supreme Court case, Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., an important free speech case.

The team nickname is the Mustangs.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

Notable alumni

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory". Archived from the original on 2010-11-03. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  2. 1 2 3 "Maple Heights High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  4. 1 2 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site" . Retrieved 2006-12-31.
  5. ↑ Yappi. "Yappi Sports Wrestling". Archived from the original on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
  6. ↑ "Len Koxmalski Stats". Basketball-Reference.com . Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  7. ↑ "MHHS Class of 1961 Reunion Program". MHHS Class of 1961. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  8. 1 2 "Maple Heights Alumni Pro Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com . Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  9. ↑ Campbell, Steve (28 June 1987). "'Horse' is a horse". Fort Worth Star-Telegram . pp. 1, 5. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  10. ↑ Greene, Andy (December 13, 2017). "The Cars' Ric Ocasek on the Hall of Fame: 'It's a Good Cap to the Bottle'". Rolling Stone . Wenner Media. Retrieved March 23, 2018. That was in Cleveland, Ohio, since I used to live there.... I graduated from [Maple Heights] [ sic ] High School in 1963.
  11. ↑ Who's Who in the Midwest. Vol. 16. A.N. Marquis. 1978. p. 734. ISBN   978-0-8379-0716-1.

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