Ten-year-old Honey Cooper spends part of the day learning about fractions and the solar system as a fourth grader at Kimbark Elementary School—and the rest of it as a dual-enrolled student at San Bernardino Valley College, taking a college-level art class.
“She is very, very, very brilliant,” Kimbark Elementary School Principal Brittany Zuniga told local TV station KTLA. “She is dedicated. She is passionate. She loves learning.”
The youngest of five, Cooper taught herself how to read early on and quickly became a stand-out student at her school. She does math at a seventh-grade level and reads on par with high school seniors, according to her mother. Cooper has also already begun narrowing her career prospects, eyeing a future as a surgeon, artist, or fashion designer.
One of the biggest differences between her two classes, she said, is size—33 students in elementary school versus just 12 in college—but she’s found a rhythm that keeps her grounded.
“It really is a lot, but if you really balance it, it can go really smoothly,” Cooper said to KTLA.
