West Vancouver Secondary was founded as Inglewood High School in 1927, located at 1735 Inglewood Avenue. The school opened with eight classrooms and a gymnasium, and a few years later, two portables were added to provide extra classroom and library facilities. Four more rooms were eventually added to the eastern end of the school to house home economics and shop classes. In 1951 construction started on a new North Campus building on Mathers Avenue and by 1952 it opened as West Vancouver Secondary School. A few years later, 1955, the building was expanded with a three-floor west wing, and in 1960 a second gymnasium was installed. The building further went through an expansion adding a 500-seat theatre with two music rooms in the east wing. In addition, with provincial funds, a six-room shop wing known as the Tech Wing was added behind the north campus building, and a new South Campus building was added next to the Inglewood building to accommodate more students. The Inglewood building continued to be used for many years as a junior high school until all classes were moved to the main site on Mathers. By the late 1980s the building was used as a YMCA and the Kehilat Har-el until it was demolished in 1995. In the mid 1990s, the school went through a major renovation which included a remodelling of the exterior and interior parts of the North Campus Building. During this time period, classes were temporarily moved to portables until the completion in the 2000s. Notable changes included a third gymnasium, relocation of the library and the administration office, a new cafeteria, redesigned classrooms and hallways, and a new west wing. The renovations ended in 2005 when the school's new east wing and new auditorium, The Kay Meek Centre, were constructed.
In 2004, new $12 million CADperforming arts centre was constructed over the school's old theatre. The Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts was the vision of West Vancouver resident Kay Meek who died in 2004. The centre features a main theatre with seating for 490 as well as a flexible black box studio theatre with seating up to 216. The studio theatre was finished in February 2006. The first show in the theatre by WVSS was a very small show while the main theatre was still under construction. Kay's health was going downhill and so they created a small show just for her. The Kay Meek Centre hosts performances from The Vancouver Recital Society, Early Music Vancouver, and The Arts Club Theatre Company as well as local community organizations like Theatre West Vancouver and Theatre K.
