Centennial High School senior Patrick Thompson recently made a perfect SAT score, but he isn’t bragging about it.

The 17-year-old is, so far, the only public school student to make a perfect 2400 in north Fulton County this school year.

“It is pretty cool,” Patrick said. “But there have only been two chances to take it.”

Patrick, a straight-A student who studies about 30 minutes a day, said he does not consider himself to be the best student.

“I don’t do as much work as other students, but I definitely make an attempt to do well,” he said.

Patrick said he is fortunate enough to be able to grasp concepts in class as he is being taught.

The Roswell resident skipped the third grade because, according to his mother Juli Thompson, he was “bored out of his mind.”

A math whiz, Patrick just finished taking Differential Equations—a class he said he appreciated because of its complexity.

“Math has always been my favorite subject. It’s challenging, and it can call for creativity,” he said. “It requires more understanding, probably, than other classes do.”

Patrick said he loves math, but his true passion is music. He has played drums since the fourth grade, and now he is part of a competitive drum line called Pariah Marching Percussion Theatre.

“The music is fun. We compete on the weekends and travel to different places,” he said.

Patrick has already received an early college acceptance from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and he will hear back from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week.

Patrick said he also plans to apply to Harvard, Stanford and Princeton, but he said he is not certain that his perfect score will ensure acceptance to every school.

“He’s so humble, and that’s a blessing,” Ms. Thompson said. “But sometimes it’s OK to toot your own horn.”