Located at 4 Yishun Street 71, YSS is the first school to establish the Applied Learning Programme (ALP) in Sonic Arts.

The School was officially opened by Koh Lip Lin, Member of Parliament for Nee Soon, on 19 August 1988.

[3] YSS became single session after the completion of a new extension block in 1999, with Ow Chiong Hoo appointed as the third principal the following year in December 2000.

In 2006, YSS celebrated its twentieth anniversary and published "My Yishun: Recounting, Reflecting, Reminiscing".

[6] To celebrate its 32nd Anniversary, YSS broke another record of the Largest Logo made out of colouring books on 29 March 2018.