The test, and what it showed
WESH, the NBC station in Orlando, reported that Anaya Browne, seven, of Sanford, Florida, had taken a standardized intelligence test and scored higher than 99.9 per cent of students her age. That result qualified her for Mensa, the high-IQ society, whose entry requirement the report describes as a place in the top 2 per cent of the tested population. The story was distributed through CNN Newsource and carried by KRDO on 1 June 2026. NewsRadio WFLA in Florida had run its own version on 27 May.
Her father, Kevis Browne, told the station he had not understood the result at first — only that "she had scored very highly on the test, testing higher than 99.9%". Her mother, Tiffany Browne, framed it as parenting rather than measurement: to see a child "turn out so good is really just this huge blessing".
What the Mensa threshold actually means
Two numbers are doing the work here, and they are not the same. Mensa's admission line, as the reports state it, is the top 2 per cent. Anaya's result is placed at the top 0.1 per cent; the syndicated headline says so outright. One figure is a door, the other a margin. Neither is an IQ score, and none of the three reports supplies one.
That absence is worth noting rather than filling. Stories of this kind usually arrive with a three-digit number attached, and that number is what readers search for afterwards. In this case it was never published — not by WESH, not by WFLA, not by Face2Face Africa, which picked the story up for an international readership.
School, family and the line she chose
The reports place her at Wilson Elementary School in Sanford and name her parents as Tiffany and Kevis Browne. Nothing in the coverage describes a grade skip, a specialist programme or a change of school, and the family's published remarks lean on encouragement rather than acceleration.
Asked what she would tell other children, Anaya supplied the line every version of the story ends on: "You got this, you can do this!" It is the only direct quotation from her in the material collected here.
What is documented — and what is not
Documented: a seven-year-old in Sanford, Florida; a standardized intelligence test; a result above the 99.9th percentile for her age group; acceptance into Mensa; her school; her parents' names; and publication dates of 27 May and 1 June 2026.
Not documented: which test she sat, and under whose supervision; any IQ figure; the date of the test itself; whether she is the youngest member of any Mensa chapter, a claim the coverage never makes; and anything about her schooling since. Where the record on a child is thin, the honest course is to mark the gap rather than decorate it.
How the story travelled
The route is instructive. A local television report becomes a national item through a syndication service, then crosses to outlets with entirely different readerships — here Face2Face Africa, which covers Black achievement for a global audience. Nothing was added along the way. The same percentile, the same school, the same two parental quotes appear in each version.
For a reader trying to establish what happened, that uniformity is a caution rather than a confirmation: three articles are not three sources when all of them descend from one newsroom's work. The reporting underneath this page is WESH's, and everything firm on it traces back there.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anaya Browne | United States | Joining Mensa at seven | Age 0 |
| Lawson Lundberg | United States | Joining Mensa at 3 | Age 3 |
| Nishi Uggalle | United Kingdom | Winning Channel 4's Child Genius in 2019 | Age 10 |
| David Camacho | Mexico | Selection for a Jr. NASA programme, 2024 | — |
| Sharvin Jeyendran | Australia | A Mensa test put him at 168, and the headlines put him above Stephen Hawki | — |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Accepted into Mensa in 2026 after scoring above the 99.9th percentile for her age (WESH via KRDO, 1 June 2026).
- Aged seven, and a pupil at Wilson Elementary School, Sanford, Florida.
- Parents named in the coverage as Tiffany and Kevis Browne.
- Mensa's entry threshold given in the reports as the top 2 per cent.
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No IQ score has been published by any source.
- The test she sat is not named, and the testing date is not given.
- All three articles descend from a single WESH report; no independent reporting has been located.
- Nothing is documented about her schooling after June 2026.
Questions people ask about Anaya Browne
How old is Anaya Browne?
She was seven when the reports ran in late May and early June 2026. No source publishes her date of birth.
What is Anaya Browne's IQ?
No source gives a number. The reports state only that she scored higher than 99.9 per cent of children her age on a standardized intelligence test.
Which test did she take?
The reports call it a standardized intelligence test and do not name it or say who administered it.
Where does Anaya Browne go to school?
Wilson Elementary School in Sanford, Florida, according to the WESH report carried by KRDO.
Who are Anaya Browne's parents?
Tiffany Browne and Kevis Browne, both quoted in the coverage.
Is Anaya Browne the youngest person in Mensa?
No source makes that claim. Mensa admits members who reach the top 2 per cent, and reports of very young members are not unusual.
Is Anaya Browne on Wikipedia?
No. There is no Wikipedia article about her; the record here rests on news reporting from 2026.
Where is Anaya Browne now?
As of the June 2026 reports she was a pupil at Wilson Elementary School in Sanford. Nothing later is documented in the sources used here.
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Sources
- Central Florida 7-year-old joins Mensa after scoring in top 0.1% of her age group — WESH / KRDO (CNN Newsource), 2026-06-01
- Central Florida 7-Year-Old Accepted Into Mensa For High IQ — NewsRadio WFLA, 2026-05-27
- Florida: 7-year-old joins Mensa for high IQ — Face2Face Africa, 2026
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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