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, with an Elverson postal address.
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the district includes Caernarvon Township (including the Berks County part of Morgantown), New Morgan, and Robeson Township (including

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the district includes Elverson, Honey Brook,

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, and West Nantmeal Township.

History

The school district was established in 1955. The Twin Valley Junior-Senior High School, completed some time before 1960,
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. had a cost of about $2.1 million. 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

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and instead incorporate a formal school of their own. 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. In 2022 the district had 3,000 students. The district has a Native American mascot. In 2022 the superintendent opposed a measure to change the mascot, as did the school board.

Schools

; Secondary schools * Twin Valley High School (Caernarvon Township, Elverson address) * Twin Valley Middle School (Caernarvon Township, Elverson address) ; Elementary schools * Honey Brook Elementary Center (

, Honey Brook address) * Robeson Elementary Center ( Robeson Township, Birdsboro address)
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br>It has a Birdsboro address but is not in the Birdsboro limits. ** The school bus services transport 90 to 95% of the students. The Berks County government described the school's attendance boundary as "large". * Twin Valley Elementary Center ( Elverson) ** Its attendance boundary includes areas east of

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and southeast of

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