| Maple Heights High School | |
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| 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(s) | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [2] |
| Athletic Director | Tom O'Connor[1] |
| 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 1928. 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.
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Maple Heights High School athletic teams are best known for their amazing wrestling teams of the 50's, 60's, and 70's. 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.
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