Orchid Park Secondary School, abbreviated as OPSS (Chinese: 兰景中学, Pinyin: Lán Jing Zhong Xué, Malay: Sekolah Menengah Orchid Park) is a co-educational government secondary school in Yishun, Singapore.
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