Maple Heights High School
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| streetaddress = 1 Mustang Way
| city = Maple Heights
| state = Ohio
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| zipcode = 44137
| country = USA
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| superintendent = Charles Keenan
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| type = Public, Coeducational high school
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| conference = Lake Erie League
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| accreditation = North Central Association of Colleges and Schools{{cite web|url=http://www.advanc-ed.org/schools_districts/school_district_listings/? |title=NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement |accessdate=2010-02-17 |author=NCA-CASI |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923003622/http://www.advanc-ed.org/schools_districts/school_district_listings/ |archivedate=September 23, 2009 }}
| rival = Bedford,Cleveland Heights
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| enrollment = 1,017 (2023–2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3904430&ID=390443001233|title=Maple Heights High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=January 6, 2025}}
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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=
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- Wrestling – 1956, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1974 {{cite web|url=http://www.ohsaa.org/|title=Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site|accessdate=2006-12-31|author=OHSAA}}{{cite web|url=http://www.yappi.com/statechamps/wrestling.html|title=Yappi Sports Wrestling|accessdate=2007-02-12|author=Yappi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304004939/http://www.yappi.com/statechamps/wrestling.html|archive-date=2009-03-04|url-status=dead}}
- Football – 2010
Notable alumni
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- Chuck Findley – Class of 1965. trumpet player in The Tonight Show Band, Steely Dan and The Wrecking Crew.{{citation needed|date=September 2019|reason=Need to cite a reliable source to verify attendance at this school.}}
- Bruce E. Grooms – retired vice admiral in the United States Navy.{{citation needed|date=September 2019|reason=Need to cite a reliable source to verify attendance at this school.}}
- Len Kosmalski, NBA basketball player (Kansas City Kings){{Cite web | url = https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/kosmale01.html | title = Len Koxmalski Stats | website = Basketball-Reference.com | access-date = September 18, 2019}}
- Jim Krusoe, novelist, poet, and short story writer.{{cite web|url=https://mhhs1961.webs.com/reunionprogram.htm|title=MHHS Class of 1961 Reunion Program|accessdate=September 18, 2019|website=MHHS Class of 1961}}{{Unreliable source?|date=September 2019}}
- Frank Mestnik (born 1938), class of 1953, professional football player (St. Louis Cardinals and Green Bay Packers).{{Cite web | url = https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/high_schools.cgi?id=93bebc69 | title = Maple Heights Alumni Pro Stats | website = Pro-Football-Reference.com | access-date = September 18, 2019}}
- Dale Mohorcic, class of 1974, professional baseball player{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Steve |title='Horse' is a horse |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112012905/horse-is-a-horse/ |access-date=25 October 2022 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |date=28 June 1987 |pages=1, 5}}
- Ric Ocasek (1944–2019), class of 1963, lead singer of the Cars.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-cars-ric-ocasek-on-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-w514016 |title=The Cars' Ric Ocasek on the Hall of Fame: 'It's a Good Cap to the Bottle' |first=Andy|last= Greene |date=December 13, 2017 |magazine=Rolling Stone|publisher=Wenner Media |access-date=March 23, 2018 |quote=That was in Cleveland, Ohio, since I used to live there.... I graduated from [Maple Heights] {{sic}} High School in 1963.}}
- Mary Oliver – Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award winning poet.{{citation needed|date=September 2019|reason=Need to cite a reliable source to verify attendance at this school.}}
- Richard Quinn (born 1986), professional football player (Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins).
- Evelyn Svec Ward (1921–1989), class of 1939, fiber artist.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hptmAAAAMAAJ |title=Who's Who in the Midwest |date=1978 |publisher=A.N. Marquis |isbn=978-0-8379-0716-1 |volume=16 |pages=734 |language=en}}
Notes and references
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.mapleschools.com/573701_3}}
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