The test behind the membership
The route in this case is documented, which is unusual in stories about very young Mensa members. Jadon sat the Cognitive Abilities Test, a standardised American assessment widely used by schools to identify pupils for gifted programmes, and scored in the 99th percentile on both its quantitative and non-verbal sections.
That result did two things at once. It qualified him for American Mensa, which admits scores at or above the 98th percentile on an approved test, and it qualified him for his own school's gifted programme. The second is the one that affects his week: Mensa is a society, while a gifted programme is a change to what he is actually taught.
Reading at two
The early markers reported are familiar in this category and were noticed young. He began reading at two and showed advanced mathematical ability early. By five he was assessed as functioning cognitively above the 99th percentile.
He is a first-grade pupil at Georgia Cyber Academy, a public online school, which is a setting that suits a child working ahead of his year group: the pace is set by the pupil rather than by the class. His younger brother is named Levi.
Two professors and a household of books
His parents are both academics in the same discipline. Leon Prieto teaches business management at Clayton State University and Simone Phipps-Prieto teaches it at Middle Georgia State University. Both are from Trinidad and Tobago.
Household context of this kind is routinely left out of prodigy stories, and it belongs in them. A home run by two university teachers is one where reading is constant, questions are answered at length and testing is understood rather than feared. None of that produces a 99th-percentile score by itself, and all of it makes such a score more likely to be noticed, pursued and acted on.
What he says he wants
His ambition is a doctor's, and his reason for it is seven words long. Jadon wants to be a paediatrician: “I want to help children,” he said.
His family's emphasis, reported alongside the score, is on character rather than percentile: his kindness, humility and desire to help others are what distinguish him, they say. His own description of himself is a short list, polite, intelligent, respectful and confident, which is the kind of answer a seven-year-old gives when asked to describe himself and has been raised to think about it.
Where Jadon Prieto is now
As of May 2026 he was seven, in the first grade at Georgia Cyber Academy, a member of American Mensa and of his school's gifted programme.
Nothing further is documented in the sources used here, and for a child of that age nothing further should be. There is no published IQ number, only percentile results on a named school test, which is a more meaningful way to report a young child's assessment. His date of birth is not published, and no detail about his home beyond the county is on the record.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
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What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Scored in the 99th percentile on the quantitative and non-verbal sections of the Cognitive Abilities Test and joined American Mensa at seven (Caribbean National Weekly)
- Reading at two; assessed above the 99th percentile by five; first-grader at Georgia Cyber Academy
- Parents Leon Prieto and Simone Phipps-Prieto are business management professors from Trinidad and Tobago
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No IQ number has been published, only percentile results
- No date of birth published
- No reporting on him after May 2026
Questions people ask about Jadon Prieto
How old is Jadon Prieto?
He was seven when the story was reported in May 2026, placing his birth around 2019. No date of birth is published.
What is Jadon Prieto's IQ?
No IQ number has been published. His results are reported as 99th-percentile scores on the quantitative and non-verbal sections of the Cognitive Abilities Test.
How did he qualify for Mensa?
Through his Cognitive Abilities Test results. American Mensa accepts scores at or above the 98th percentile on approved tests.
Where does he go to school?
Georgia Cyber Academy, where he is a first-grade pupil.
Who are his parents?
Leon Prieto, who teaches business management at Clayton State University, and Simone Phipps-Prieto, who teaches the same subject at Middle Georgia State University. Both are from Trinidad and Tobago.
What does he want to be?
A paediatrician. His stated reason is that he wants to help children.
Does he have siblings?
Yes. A younger brother named Levi is mentioned in the reporting.
Is Jadon Prieto on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article on him was identified in the research behind this page.
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Sources
- 7-year-old Trini-American boy accepted into Mensa, the world's high-IQ society, after standout academic performance — Caribbean National Weekly, 2026-05-14
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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