Colorado Springs senior graduating with perfect attendance

There isn’t anything that has kept a Colorado Springs senior from missing class for 13 years, not even vacations or doctor appointments.

Meet Will Malmgren. He seems like your typical senior.

“I wake up at 6:30 every morning,” Malmgren said.

Although he’s walked through the halls of Harrison High School along with thousands of other students, there’s one thing that sets him apart — he hasn’t missed a day of school since kindergarten.

That’s a total of 2,340 school days since August of 2005.

And he says it hasn’t been easy.

“I have come to school sick,” he recalls.

Even tardiness hasn’t tarnished his perfect attendance.

“At this point, it’s become more of a habit where I feel uncomfortable if I feel like I’m going to be late,” he said.

He says his mom has been the driving force and has made sure to schedule family vacations and appointments around his class schedule.

“Anytime she’s planned anything, whether that be doctor’s appointments, dentist appointments or any type of vacations, it’s always been when there is either no school or just after school,” Malmgren said.

While it may seem like his goal started off early in his childhood, he tells us it actually began when he was a sophomore.

School proving more important to him than Senior Ditch Day.

“It would’ve broken the streak and it would be cheating if I did that,” he said.

Until graduation in May, Will plans to attend the rest of his classes. Even graduating 6th in his class with a 4.3 G.P.A. He plans to attend college in Nebraska where he hopes to continue his streak of perfect attendance. And he isn’t alone, senior Aspen Thoe will also graduate with the major accomplishment.