Maple Heights High School

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.

Maple Heights High School
Address
1 Mustang Way Maple Heights , (Cuyahoga County) , Ohio 44137 United States
Coordinates	41°24′45″N 81°33′40″W
Information
Type	Public, Coeducational high school
Superintendent	Charles Keenan[1]
Principal	Shay Price[1]
Teaching staff	63.00 (FTE)[2]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,057 (2017–18)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	16.78[2]
Color(s)	Maroon and White [1]
Athletics conference	Lake Erie League[1]
Team name	Mustangs[1]
Accreditation	North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [3]
Athletic Director	Nick Kaliszewski [1]
Website	www.mapleschools.com

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

• 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.
• Bruce E. Grooms – rear admiral in the United States Navy.
• Len Kosmalski – NBA basketball player (Kansas City Kings)[6]
• Jim Krusoe - novelist, poet, and short story writer.[7]
• Frank Mestnik – Class of 1953. professional football player (St. Louis Cardinals and Green Bay Packers).[8]
• Dale Mohorcic – relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1986 to 1990.
• Ric Ocasek – Class of 1963. Lead singer of the Cars.[9]
• Mary Oliver – Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award winning poet.
• Richard Quinn – professional football player (Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins).[8]

External links

• District Website

Notes and references

1. OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory". Archived from the original on 2010-11-03. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
2. "Maple Heights High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
3. NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
4. 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. "Maple Heights Alumni Pro Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
9. 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.