The graduating class of Pollard Middle School in Needham, Massachusetts, includes 23 sets of twins among its numbers. This amounts to about 10% of the class.
A Massachusetts middle school recently celebrated its eighth-grade 'moving up' ceremony for its outgoing students, including a remarkable 23 sets of twins. Pollard Middle School, in Needham, Massachusetts, has a fairly large student body, Principal Tamantha Bibbo told the Associated Press . But the sheer number of twins in this year's eighth-grade class is 'quite unusual,' she said. 'We typically have anywhere from five to 10 sets at most,' Bibbo told the AP.
Twins are by far the most common multiple birth. In 2022, 114,483 twin births were recorded in the U.S., according to the CDC. That same year, according to the CDC, there were 2,774 sets of triplets born in the U.S. and an additional 121 'quadruplet and other higher order births.' The reasons behind the increasing number of multiple births were not entirely clear and could be linked to many factors, including maternal age and the use of fertility treatments, the CDC said.
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