Maple Heights High School Explained

Maple Heights High School
Streetaddress:1 Mustang Way
City:Maple Heights
State:Ohio
County:(Cuyahoga County)
Zipcode:44137
Country:USA
Coordinates:41.4125°N -81.5611°W
Superintendent:Charles Keenan
Principal:Shay Price
Teaching Staff:57.00 (FTE)
Ratio:17.84
Type:Public, Coeducational high school
Grades:9 - 12
Conference:Lake Erie League
Accreditation:North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[1]
Rival:Bedford,Cleveland Heights
Team Name:Mustangs[2]
Enrollment:1,017 (2022–23)[3]
Homepage: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

Notable alumni

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement . 2010-02-17 . NCA-CASI . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090923003622/http://www.advanc-ed.org/schools_districts/school_district_listings/ . September 23, 2009 .
  2. Web site: Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory. 2010-02-17. OHSAA. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101103232955/http://cdab.org/members.asp?SCHOOL_ID=944. 2010-11-03.
  3. Web site: Maple Heights High School. National Center for Education Statistics. May 31, 2024.
  4. Web site: Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site. 2006-12-31. OHSAA.
  5. Web site: Yappi Sports Wrestling. 2007-02-12. Yappi. https://web.archive.org/web/20090304004939/http://www.yappi.com/statechamps/wrestling.html. 2009-03-04. dead.
  6. Web site: Len Koxmalski Stats . . September 18, 2019.
  7. Web site: MHHS Class of 1961 Reunion Program. September 18, 2019. MHHS Class of 1961.
  8. Web site: Maple Heights Alumni Pro Stats . . September 18, 2019.
  9. News: Campbell . Steve . 'Horse' is a horse . 25 October 2022 . . 28 June 1987 . 1, 5.
  10. Web site: The Cars' Ric Ocasek on the Hall of Fame: 'It's a Good Cap to the Bottle' . Andy. Greene . December 13, 2017 . Rolling Stone. Wenner Media . March 23, 2018 . That was in Cleveland, Ohio, since I used to live there.... I graduated from [Maple Heights] High School in 1963..
  11. Book: Who's Who in the Midwest . 1978 . A.N. Marquis . 978-0-8379-0716-1 . 16 . 734 . en.