He completed high school at age 9. Next up? Maybe rocket science.

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David Balogun, who turned 9 in May, graduated from the Pennsylvania-based Reach Cyber Charter School on Friday.

But before those jobs, David had his eyes set on a more immediate goal: He wanted to graduate high school by the time he was 10, eight years earlier than the average student.

Ronya Balogun can’t pinpoint when she first realized her son was able to learn almost anything more rapidly than others.Growing up, David loved watching videos about space and human anatomy on Kids Learning Tube, an app and YouTube channel with educational singalong videos. He could dictate complicated words with ease after hearing them. And he knew the solar system “in and out” by age 4, Ronya Balogun said.

David finished sixth and seventh grade over the summer after academic testing and then landed in Derr’s eighth-grade class in the fall of 2021. Coincidentally, the first unit in Derr’s class that year was on one of David’s favorite subjects: space.But he wasn’t learning anything new, Derr said. During lessons, she said she’d noticed that David already knew the terms she introduced and could explain how they applied to the solar system.

As Ronya Balogun watched her son fly through eighth grade, she knew he’d reach his goal. After wrapping up middle school, he finished his high school coursework in the year that followed, studiously completing the lessons Reach Cyber teachers had designed specifically for him.

 

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