Maple Heights High School

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Maple Heights High School
Address
5500 Clement Drive
Maple Heights, Ohio, (Cuyahoga County) 44137
United States
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Information
Type Public, Coeducational high school
Superintendent Charles Keenan[1]
Principal Mariel Sallee[1]
Grades 9-12
Color(s) Maroon and White [1]         
Athletics conference Lake Erie League[1]
Team name Mustangs[1]
Accreditation North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [2]
Athletic Director Tom O'Connor[1]
Website

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 an infamous U.S. Supreme Court case, Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., which helped lead to more freedom and latitude for newspaper writers to express opinion without fear of litigation.

The team nickname is the Mustangs.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

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  • Wrestling - 1956, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1974 [3][4]
  • Football - 2010 [3]

Noted Alumni

External links

Notes and references

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