Teachers at one elementary school in Scotland will soon be seeing double after 17 sets of twins enrolled for the upcoming school year.
- The 34 children will soon begin school at St. Patrick’s Primary in Inverclyde, which is no stranger to student duplicates. In fact, Inverclyde has become known as “Twinverclyde” because of the higher-than-average number of twins who are born there. “It has become an annual tradition in Inverclyde, or Twinverclyde, as we’ve become known, to welcome our twins into primary one,” says school official Graeme Brooks.
- Over the past decade, at least 147 sets of twins have been born in Inverclyde, officials say.
“Seventeen sets of twins is something else,” says parent Arlene Fulton. “It must be something in the water.”