Twin Valley School District
School district in Pennsylvania, United States
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Twin Valley School District (TVSD) is a school district headquartered in Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, with an Elverson postal address.[1][2] Within Berks County, the district includes Caernarvon Township (including the Berks County part of Morgantown), New Morgan, and Robeson Township (including Gibraltar).[3] Within Chester County the district includes Elverson, Honey Brook, Honey Brook Township, and West Nantmeal Township.[4]
History
The school district was established in 1955.[5]
The Twin Valley Junior-Senior High School, completed some time before 1960,[6] had a cost of about $2.1 million.[7] In 1960 there was a controversy over some Amish men who were jailed for not allowing their children to attend the junior-senior high school. The Twin Valley School District's board of trustees required that if the Amish men wished to give a religious education, they should not home school and instead incorporate a formal school of their own.[6] The principal of the high school stated that it would not be feasible for the school district to operate a one room schoolhouse at the middle school for the Amish children.[8]
Robert Pleis was superintendent from circa 2007 until 2020. Patrick Winters became the superintendent in 2021.[9]
In 2022 the district had 3,000 students.[10]
The district has a mascot featuring stereotypical Native American imagery. In 2022 the superintendent opposed a measure to change the mascot,[10] as did the school board.[11] On November 15, 2023 the ACLU Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit against the Twin Valley School District for refusing to give official status to the school's 'Retire the Raider Club' on behalf of Twin Valley Student Sloane Wolfe.[12]
In 2024 Winters left his position of superintendent,[13] and Robert Scoboria became the new superintendent. Scoboria was previously superintendent at Wyomissing School District.[14]
Schools
- Secondary schools
- Twin Valley High School (Caernarvon Township, Elverson address)[2][15]
- Twin Valley Middle School (Caernarvon Township, Elverson address)[2][16]
- Elementary schools
- Honey Brook Elementary Center (Honey Brook Township, Honey Brook address)[17]
- Robeson Elementary Center (Robeson Township, Birdsboro address)[18]
- The school bus services transport 90 to 95% of the students. The Berks County government described the school's attendance boundary as "large".[19]
- Twin Valley Elementary Center (Elverson)
- Its attendance boundary includes areas east of Interstate 176 and southeast of Pennsylvania Route 82.[19]
Notable alumni
- A. J. Alexy, professional baseball player
- Ashley Hoffman (2015) and Kelee Lepage (2016) - members of the US National Field Hockey team at 2024 Summer Paris Olympics.
- Chad Hurley (1995) - co-founder and first CEO of YouTube.
- Kayla Collins (2005) model and Playboy Playmate (August 2008) [20]