Inside the Long Island high school that has an astonishing amount of twins graduating this year
This Long Island high school makes the grade when it comes to staggering sibling stats.
Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School has 15 sets of twins in this year’s graduating class of 447 seniors.
The plethora of twins at the Plainview school even includes two pairs of siblings with identical names: Rebecca and Josh.
The teens’ school ties have been strong since grammar school.
“Most, if not all, have been in the district since kindergarten,” Timothy Lamb, the school’s assistant principal, told Today.
Thankfully, the 30 students are all fraternal twins, so their teachers don’t have to add to their workload to determine who’s who.
“Some teachers don’t even know they’re twins, even though some do look alike,” Lamb continued.
When they were babies, their parents even formed their own support group, which met monthly and had a bi-annual garage sale of hand-me-downs.
“Many met as infants because the parents joined a ‘parents of twins’ group. They’re all very friendly with each other. They’re all close. It’s like they have a little clique,” Lamb added.
Meredith Brake, the mother of twins Emily, attending the University of Georgia in the fall, and Amanda, heading off to Ohio State, praised the twins’ group for its unique camaraderie.
“It was a great place to know you weren’t alone in this journey,” she told the outlet.
The school’s statistic is impressive considering that twins occur in around just 3% of all births, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Some of its twins have even been in some of the same classes, like Liam and Emma Heaney.
“We don’t really talk in class,” Emma told the outlet.
“Because we talk so much out of class,” added Liam.
Chloe and Aidan Manzo, will even be going to the same college, the University of Florida.
Having her twin Ben by her side helps her both emotionally and academically, senior Sydney Monka told Today.
“It means knowing I never have to enter anything alone and I always have a personal math tutor.”
