A child actor from “The Florida Project” is surprised by Rollins College, which offers him a full, four-year scholarship.

A 10-year-old boy “discovered” playing at an aging Kissimmee motel and cast in the film “The Florida Project” has been promised a full four-year scholarship to Rollins College — the youngest recipient in college history.

Christopher Rivera, “Scooty” in the award-winning film, was 8 and living in a motel room at the Paradise Inn along U.S. Highway 192 when crew members spotted him. The film, which has drew an Oscar nomination for Willem Dafoe, depicts a childhood of poverty and adventure in the shadow of the Magic Kingdom.

After the production, director Sean Baker and executives with the film’s distribution company, A24, asked Rollins if they might be able to offer Christopher a path to the private institution, said Sam Stark, Rollins’ chief marketing and community relations officer.

“It’s not a handout,” he said Thursday. “We want to work with Christopher to develop him and make sure he is ready for college.”

“I can’t wait,” responded.

“I’m so proud of myself,” he tweeted.

Christopher’s mom, Sueheily Rivera, said Rollins surprised them with the news after inviting her and her husband to visit the campus last week.

“We were like, ‘Oh, my God, why did they bring us here?’ ” she said. “We were not expecting nothing.”

Rivera said Christopher would be the first in the family to attend college — an opportunity she never had. She attended a technical school for eight months, studying sewing and design, before she had to drop out for financial reasons.

“I had told him if he wanted to go to college, he was going to have to work very hard” to pay for it, she said.

Baker called the scholarship “a dream come true.”

“This movie is all about making the thirdgrader change,” he said. “So this means more to me than Willem Dafoe getting the nomination — but don’t tell Willem Dafoe I said that.”

The movie did not make the family wealthy, but it did help them make enough to move out of the motel. Sueheily Rivera said her son is hoping to land more movie roles, but there have been no offers yet.

Meanwhile, he is expected to visit the campus at least twice a year and will need to maintain at least a 3.0 grade-point average in high school, Stark said. But if the young actor had to pay full fare for tuition, room and board for four years at Rollins, it would run roughly $250,000 at current prices. Reportedly, college administrators aren’t worried.

“He’s 10, but he has the most captivating, energetic and kindhearted spirit of any kid I’ve ever met,” Stark said. “You can see a light, a spark, in him that’s really powerful.”