Williams Lake Secondary School is a public high school in Williams Lake in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The school is administered as part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. It is a grade 8 to 12 facility enrolling approximately 600 students. The principal is Silvia Dubray.
Before 1999 the school, which is often called "WL" or "WLSS", only included grades 8-10 and was known as Williams Lake Junior Secondary. The school has many active sports teams, the most successful of which are the rugby and football, which consistently go to the provincial championships.
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