Maple Heights High School

Maple Heights High School
Address
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
Information
Type	Public, Coeducational high school
Superintendent	Charles Keenan [1]
Principal	Shay Price [1]
Teaching staff	58.00 (FTE) [2]
Grades	9 – 12
Enrollment	1,017 (2023–2024) [2]
Student to teacher ratio	17.53 [2]
Color(s)	Maroon and White [1]
Athletics conference	Lake Erie League [1]
Team name	Mustangs [1]
Rival	Bedford,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.

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

Further information: Ohio High School Athletic Association

• Wrestling – 1956, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1974 ^{[4] [5]}
• Football – 2010 ^[4]

Notable alumni

• Chuck Findley – Class of 1965. trumpet player in The Tonight Show Band, Steely Dan and The Wrecking Crew.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Bruce E. Grooms – retired vice admiral in the United States Navy.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Len Kosmalski, NBA basketball player (Kansas City Kings) ^[6]
• Jim Krusoe, novelist, poet, and short story writer. ^{[7] [ unreliable source? ]}
• Frank Mestnik (born 1938), class of 1953, professional football player (St. Louis Cardinals and Green Bay Packers). ^[8]
• Dale Mohorcic, class of 1974, professional baseball player ^[9]
• Ric Ocasek (1944–2019), class of 1963, lead singer of the Cars. ^[10]
• Mary Oliver – Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award winning poet.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Richard Quinn (born 1986), professional football player (Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins). ^[8]
• Evelyn Svec Ward (1921–1989), class of 1939, fiber artist. ^[11]

Notes and references

1. OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory". Archived from the original on November 3, 2010. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
2. "Maple Heights High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
3. NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
4. OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site" . Retrieved December 31, 2006.
5. Yappi. "Yappi Sports Wrestling". Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. Retrieved February 12, 2007.
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. "Maple Heights Alumni Pro Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com . Retrieved September 18, 2019.
9. Campbell, Steve (June 28, 1987). "'Horse' is a horse". Fort Worth Star-Telegram . pp. 1, 5. Retrieved October 25, 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.

External links

• Official website