A 9-year-old Nigerian boy, David Balogun, has graduated high school in Pennsylvania, becoming the 2nd youngest person ever to graduate high school!
Balogun graduated Reach cyber charter school in the Pennsylvania state capital of Harrisburg.
Balogun completed the school by taking classes remotely from his family home in the Philadelphia suburb of Bensalem, the local television station WGAL reported on Saturday.
The achievement makes David one of the youngest known children to ever graduate high school, according to a list compiled by the history and culture website oldest.org.
The only person on that list younger than David is Michael Kearney, who still holds the Guinness world record for youngest high school graduate that he set when he was six in 1990, before obtaining master’s degrees at 14 and 18 and then winning more than $1m on gameshows.
David told WGAL that he already knows what he wants to dedicate his professional life to once he completes his education.
“I want to be an astrophysicist, and I want to study black holes and supernovas,” he said to the station.
David’s parents both have advanced academic degrees, but they told WGAL that it is challenging to raise a child with such an extraordinary intellect.
“I had to get outside of the box,” David’s mother, Ronya, said to the outlet. “Playing pillow fights when you’re not supposed to, throwing the balls in the house. He’s a nine-year-old with the brain that has the capacity to understand and comprehend a lot of concepts beyond his years and sometimes beyond my understanding.”
David is a member of high intelligence quotient (IQ) society Mensa, and has done one semester at Bucks county community college since graduating from Reach charter.
Meanwhile, he and his family have been doing their research into other colleges and universities to try to find the one that is best suited for a boy who – besides his academics – is pursuing a martial arts black belt, enjoys other sports and plays the piano.
“Am I going to throw my nine-year-old into Harvard while I’m living in [Pennsylvania]?” David’s father, Henry, said of the family’s college search. “No.”
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