Maplewood High School (Tennessee)

Maplewood High School
Address
401 Walton Lane Nashville, Tennessee USA
Information
Type	Public High School
Motto	"Pride, Dignity, and Excellence pave the road to success."
Established	1956
Principal	Dr. Ron Woodard
Grades	9–12
School color(s)	Maroon and Gray
Athletics	TSSAA
Mascot	Panthers
Website	http://www.maplewoodhs.mnps.org/site121.aspx

Maplewood High School is a secondary education facility operated by Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is located barely one-fourth mile east of Nashville’s historic Dickerson Road and borders on Ellington Parkway on the west. The school was formerly called Maplewood Comprehensive High School until March 2012 when the Metro Board of Education dropped the "Comprehensive" title from all its zoned schools to reflect the district's new emphases on smaller learning communities and thematic career academies.^[1]

Maplewood High School opened its doors in 1956 to a community that had a long-standing desire for a school. The school faces Maplewood Lane from which it derived its name. It on land once owned by Jere Baxter (1852–1904), a prominent Nashvillian who was both a strong supporter of public education and an entrepreneur.

Maplewood opened with 13 teachers and 404 students enrolled in grades 7 and 8 and continued to increase with a grade each year. By 1961–62 the enrollment reached 1468; that spring 84 students — 51 girls and 33 boys — were in the first graduation. The school grew rapidly because of the development of residential subdivisions including Gra-Mar, Hillhurst, Bellshire, Oak Valley, Shepherdwood, Kemper Heights, Haynes Heights, Haynes Manor, Parkwood and Trinity Hills. Zone changes and the construction of Ewing Park School also influenced enrollment. Another transition occurred when East High School was closed. In the spring of 2003, enrollment increased at Maplewood by nearly 300 students as a result of re-zoning two feeder schools. In addition, a small English language learner student population was transferred from Maplewood to another high school.

At the beginning of the 2005–2006 school year, a guidance counselor, an attendance officer, and a social worker were new personnel additions. Other changes included a new head coach, a librarian, and two new assistant principals, one of whom had been a teacher at the school. Significantly, a new executive principal was assigned to Maplewood, the eighth person to serve in this position in half a century.

Notable alumni

Brenda Lee, Country Music Legend http://www.brendalee.com/pages/biography.html
Avion Black, National Football League wide receiver
E.J. Junior, All-American linebacker at the University of Alabama, former NFL linebacker
James Stone, Center for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville football team^[2]

Rita Coolidge singer

External links

References

↑ Garrison, Joey. "Metro high schools may drop 'comprehensive' label." The City Paper. 12 March 2012. 9 March 2013.
↑ "James Stone Bio". UT Sports. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 22 March 2014.

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools

High Schools	Academy at Old Cockrill Antioch Cane Ridge East Nashville Glencliff Hillsboro Hillwood Hume-Fogg Hunters Lane Martin Luther King Maplewood McGavock Middle College Nashville Big Picture Nashville School of the Arts John Overton Pearl-Cohn Stratford Whites Creek

Middle Schools	Margaret Allen Antioch Apollo Bailey Bass Jere Baxter Bellevue Brick Church Cameron I.T. Creswell Croft Donelson DuPont Hadley DuPont Tyler John Early East Nashville Ewing Park Goodlettsville Gra-Mar Haynes Head H.G. Hill Joelton J.F. Kennedy KIPP Litton Madison Thurgood Marshall McKissack McMurray Meigs Moore Neely's Bend Rose Park Two Rivers Martha Vaught West End William Henry Oliver Wright

Elementary Schools	Amqui Bellshire Binkley Brookmeade Buena Vista Caldwell Carter-Lawrence Cane Ridge Chadwell Charlotte Park Cockrill Cole Hattie Cotton Crieve Hall Cumberland Dodson DuPont Eakin Thomas Edison Fall-Hamilton Gateway Glencliff Glendale Glengarry Glenn Glenview Goodlettsville Gower Granbery Alex Green Julia Green Harpeth Valley Haywood Hermitage Hickman Cora Howe Hull-Jackson Inglewood Andrew Jackson Joelton Jones Paideia Tom Joy A.Z. Kelley Kirkpatrick Lakeview Lillard Lockeland Ruby Major Maxwell McGavock Mills Moss Mt. View Napier Neely's Bend Old Center Paragon Mills Park Avenue Pennington Percy Priest Rosebank Shayne Shwab Smithson-Craighead Smith Springs Stanford Stratton Sylvan Park Tulip Grove Tusculum Una Warner Waverly-Belmont Westmeade Whitsitt

Alternative Learning Centers	Baxter Cohn McCann

Special Education Schools	Harris-Hillman Cora Howe Murrell Johnson

Charter Elementary Schools	Drexel Preparatory East End Preparatory Explore! Community School Nashville Classical Purpose Preparatory Smithson-Craighead Academy

Charter Middle Schools	Boy's Preparatory Brick Church College Preparatory Cameron Preparatory Intrepid Preparatory KIPP Academy Nashville KIPP College Preparatory Knowledge Academy LEAD Academy LEAD Preparatory Southeast Liberty Collegiate Academy Nashville Academy of Computer Science Nashville Preparatory New Vision Academy STEM Preparatory Academy Valor Collegiate Academy

Charter High Schools	KIPP Nashville Collegiate High School LEAD Academy

Former High Schools	North High School Pearl High School Meigs High School Cameron High School Madison High School Goodletsville High School Cohn High School Litton High School Nashville Central High School Bellevue High School Donelson High School West High School Dupont High School Two Rivers High School Joelton High School Cumberland High School

Other Historical Schools	Parmer Elementary Tarbox School New Hominy School Washington Junior High Woodmont Elementary

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