Maple Heights High School
| Maple Heights High School | |
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| Address | |
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5500 Clement Drive Maple Heights, Ohio, (Cuyahoga County) 44137 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°24′45″N 81°33′40″W / 41.41250°N 81.56111°WCoordinates: 41°24′45″N 81°33′40″W / 41.41250°N 81.56111°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public, Coeducational high school |
| Superintendent | Charles Keenan |
| Principal | Shay Price |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Color(s) | Maroon and White |
| Athletics conference | Lake Erie League |
| Team name | Mustangs |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Athletic Director | Nick Kaliszewski |
| Website | www.mapleschools.com |
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.
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.
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