A nine-year-old boy in Pennsylvania has graduated high school and enrolled in community college after taking accelerated online courses. 

David Balogun, of Bensalem, has become the youngest graduate from the Reach Cyber Charter School after he completed the program in third grade. 

'I realized that I [was] able to graduate at the age of ten or nine as long as I put the effort in, and with the help of my mom, dad and, of course, Reach Cyber Charter School I was able to graduate,' he told Fox 43. 

'I wanted to do it because I had the ability to do it,' he continued. 'So why not use those abilities for the greater good?' 

Now the nine-year-old, who is also a member of Mensa, has enrolled in Bucks County Community College and is hoping to become an astrophysicist. 

'I want to be an astrophysicist, and study black holes and supernovas,' he said at a press conference. 

David's parents Henry and Ronya said their son was always very inquisitive and 'extremely curious about knowing things.' 

'This has prepared him,' Henry told Fox 43. 

'The word proud is not enough at all for that,' his mother added. 

David will not receive his official diploma until June and hopes to 'use this opportunity to show that I’m not the only one who can do this.' 

David also received the 2022 Distinguished Student Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Gifted Education.

When he's not studying, David enjoys karate, baseball, and playing with his sister. 

Last year, 13-year-old Elliott Tanner, of Minnesota, graduated college with a degree in physics and a minor in math. 

Tanner began reading and doing math at age three. Following a few years of homeschooling and a high school curriculum that took him two years to complete, he began taking college classes when he was nine.

'People who hear Elliott's story say he doesn't get to be a kid, or he grew up too fast,' Michelle said.

'He still very much is a kid and the only difference is he goes to school in a different building.'

Elliott formally graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and a minor in Mathematics on May 12, 2022.

He is now working on his PhD at the University of Minnesota. 

He wants to be a high-energy theoretical physicist and eventually a professor of physics at the university.