voted “Class Cut-Up”

[GoodTaste]

Is "class cut-up" a pun here which refers to she's the one who could not be trumped in the class and who's very funny as well"? Or "cut-up" is simply in its traditional scope meaning "a person who is fond of making jokes or playing pranks"?

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Catherine Susan “Kitty” Genovese was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 7, 1935, to parents Vincent and Rachel Genovese. The oldest of five children, Genovese was a graduate of Prospect Heights High School and remembered as a very good student and voted “Class Cut-Up” in her senior year.

Source: https://www.history.com/topics/crime/kitty-genovese

 

[GoesStation]

Cut-up was slang for a person who clowns around a lot. American high-school yearbook editors traditionally run a poll to elect members of the graduating class to fictional positions of this kind.