| Twin Valley School District | |
|---|---|
| Type and location | |
| Grades | Elementary k-4 Middle School 5-8 High School 9-12 |
| Established | Middle School Built in 1992 |
| Country | United States |
| Location | Elverson, Pennsylvania Chester County |
| District Info | |
| Students and staff | |
| District Mascot | Raiders |
| Colors | Green and White |
| Other information | |
| Website | www.tvsd.org/ |
Twin Valley School District is centered in Elverson, Pennsylvania. It comprises Five schools, all within half an hour's driving distance of each other.
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Twin Valley School District comprises:
The District office is found in a separate wing of the high school, which can be found sitting atop Clymer Hill. The high school and middle school are easily viewable from the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The Elementary schools are located in Robeson Township, Elverson, and Honey Brook. They are operated in the traditional system of one teacher per class teaching English, Social Studies, Science and Mathematics. The curriculum is a balanced literacy approach that utilizes authentic text to develop reading and writing skills. Math is taught using the Everyday Math program. The district offers full day kindergarten to all students. Parents may choose single graded traditional classes or multi-age classes for grades first through fourth. Multi-age classrooms are not available annymore concluding the 2010-2011 school year. The elementary schools also offer gym, art, guidance, library, and music classes.
The Middle School uses the block schedule. Students attend three hour-and-a-half long blocks per day, along with two classes during another hour-and-a-half long period. The two forty-five-minute classes are swapped halfway through the year with a different forty-five minute period so that a student may have four electives to choose from per year. Electives include art, gym, music (band, chorus and/or orchestra), family and consumer sciences, technology education, and a world language. Languages offered are German, Spanish and Chinese. Students attend the Middle School from fifth to eighth grade. For lunch, students have a half hour lunch.
The High School also runs on a block schedule, though it comprises four blocks a day in addition to a flex period in which a student will return to one of their classes for additional instruction depending on the day. Students are required to take English, Science, Social Studies, Math, Gym, Personal and Professional Dynamics(not required for the 2011-2012 school year), language classes, and Health classes in their four-year stay at the High School. Students are otherwise permitted to take multiple electives. There are at least forty electives to choose from, ranging from Agricultural Science classes to TV and Media Classes to Informational Technology classes to Yearbook and Newspaper Classes to Project Lead the Way classes. Languages offered to students are German, French, Spanish, and Russian. Chinese is also available. Twin Valley also offers music classes including Chorus, Band, Jazz Band and Orchestra, all of which have won numerous awards throughout the county.
The Twin Valley School District utilizes a standards based grading system for students in grade K-6. A traditional percentage grading system is used in grade 7-12.
YouTube.com founder and businessman Chad Hurley graduated from Twin Valley, where he was an Cross-country running star and computer genius.