Elliot Lake Secondary School (ELSS) is a high school in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada. The school began in 1956 with 23 students and quickly grew to 1193 students by 1990. The following year, the school only saw an enrollment of 899 students and the institution's population would continue to drop thereafter. As of September 2009, the enrolment was 483. The school's athletic teams are known as the "Atoms" in reference to the uranium mines that were the towns principle employer. At its height, Elliot Lake was considered the uranium capital of the world.
The school was built in four phases during the years 1957, 1959, 1964 and 1968. The building consists of 27 classrooms, five science labs, three technology shops, one manufacturing shop, one double gymnasium with a folding wall, one library, one family studies room, one music room, a drama room and a cafeteria, with a total floor space of 9,507 square metres (102,332 sq ft).
In the 2010 Fraser Institute Ontario secondary school report cards, Elliot Lake Secondary School ranked 225 of 727 schools in Ontario.
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