The class of 2023 from a Massachusetts high school will have you seeing double as it contains 15 sets of twins and a set of triplets.
Westford Academy celebrated the special occasion with its 420 graduating students at a ceremony on Saturday.
But no one realized how special the class was until it was time to get the yearbook ready and they had to dedicate two pages to the twins and triplets club.
Manager Jim Antonelli joked that the remarkable feat was due to “good Westford water”.
The twins and triplets are said to have had a great time growing up together in high school and regularly played sports together.
Massachusetts High School’s Class of 2023 Will Make You See Double As It Contains 15 Pairs Of Twins And A Set Of Triplets
Westford Academy needed two pages to devote to the twins and triplets club and principal Jim Antonelli joked the remarkable feat was down to ‘good Westford water’
The school celebrated the special occasion with its 420 graduating students at a ceremony on Saturday
The sets include Aidan and Meghan Hall, Chase and Nick Yang, Owen and Kaitlyn Walpole, Leah and Ben Solari, Megan and Sarah Strzegowksi, Lia and Alan Kemeny and Lizi and Levi Ryll.
While Charles and Andrew Lin, Hemu and Him Vadlamani, Catherine and William Crane, Mahav and Keshav Jhawar, Lindsay and Olivia Ely, Brendan and Keegan Connell, Graham and Emerson Stair and Jaden and Jared Xiao make up the rest of the 15 twins.
And Ben, Justin and Alex Jones are the only triplets in the promotion.
All will go on to higher education along with 98% of the rest of the students.
About 114,000 twins were born in America out of 3.66 million births in 2021, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is about 3%.
And there were 2,785 triplets born in the same year, or 0.07% of births.
But twins and triplets from Westford Academy’s Class of 2023 make up almost 8% of students.
It is not known how many, if any, were conceived through in vitro fertilization where there is a higher risk of multiple births.
“It’s good water in Westford, I’ll tell you that,” Principal Antonelli said.
‘I have to give my water service a plug. They are good people.
“I think the real moment of impact was glancing at that printed page, in the yearbook, was that last moment for me of ‘wow, wow’.
“Five years from now when they come back for their reunion. It’s going to be amazing.
‘This particular class, it’s really going to click with, ‘what’s going on with the twins.’
The twins and triplets are said to have had a great time growing up together in high school and regularly played sports together.
Twins made up 3% of the 3.66 million births in the US last year while triplets made up 0.07%, but they made up nearly 8% of Westford Academy’s class of 2023.
“I think we always knew it was a big class, we have a lot of twins here,” one twin said.
Meghan insisted being a twin had its perks and told local Boston TV station WHDH: ‘We know how to share because we grew up together.
“We know how to make friends because we made them together.”
But another twin said his sister followed him everywhere. “I can’t get rid of her,” he said before she replied, “No, I don’t!”
Triplets like to be one over everyone. Ben said: “It’s a nice force in numbers.”
Teachers often don’t know who they spot in the hallway among the 33 siblings.
Dan Twomey, dean of students for the class, said: “When the yearbook went into production at the start of the school year, it was like ‘Wow! I guess we really have that many.”
‘They hang out together. They play sports together. They do activities together and they all graduate together.
The number of twins in next year’s class will return to more ordinary numbers with just six.
