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	58.00 (FTE)[2]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,017 (2023–2024)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	17.53[2]
Color(s)	Maroon and White[1]
Athletics conference	Lake Erie League[1]
Team name	Mustangs[1]
Rival	Bedford,Cleveland Heights
Accreditation	North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[3]
Website	https://www.mapleschools.com/573701_3

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

Further information: Ohio High School Athletic Association

• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• Bruce E. Grooms – retired vice admiral in the United States Navy.^{[citation needed]}
• Len Kosmalski, NBA basketball player (Kansas City Kings)^[6]
• Jim Krusoe, novelist, poet, and short story writer.^{[7][unreliable source?]}
• Frank Mestnik (born 1938), class of 1953, professional football player (St. Louis Cardinals and Green Bay Packers).^[8]
• Dale Mohorcic, class of 1974, professional baseball player^[9]
• Ric Ocasek (1944–2019), class of 1963, lead singer of the Cars.^[10]
• Mary Oliver – Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award winning poet.^{[citation needed]}
• Richard Quinn (born 1986), professional football player (Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins).^[8]
• Evelyn Svec Ward (1921–1989), class of 1939, fiber artist.^[11]