Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Yaacob Latiff or SMK Yaacob Latiff (SMKYL), is a secondary school in

Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur (KL), officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, is the capital city and a Federal Territories of Malaysia, federal territory of Malaysia. It is the largest city in the country, covering an area of with a census population ...

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. This school is located at Lorong Peel off Jalan Peel at Taman Maluri.

History

Originally established by the

De La Salle Brothers The De La Salle Brothers, officially named the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (; ; ) abbreviated FSC, is a Catholic lay religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in France by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ( ...

in 1948-1954 as La Salle School, Peel Road to cope with the spillover of enrolment from

St. John's Institution St. John's Institution (abbreviated SJI) or formerly known as St. John's National Secondary School () is a public all-boys school (sixth form is co-ed) and is one of the oldest schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The school is widely known by ...

, the school was renamed after the second Lord Mayor of Kuala Lumpur (), Tan Sri Yaacob Latiff when management and ownership was transferred to the

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45 years after its founding in 1993.

Notable alumni

References

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* {{coord missing, Malaysia Schools in Kuala Lumpur Secondary schools in Malaysia