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SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY
SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY is one of the intimate elementary campuss in MIAMI, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, with 410 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY sits 32% below that benchmark.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY is one of those campuses.
On demographics, SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY reports that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 73.0%; SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY posts 87.1%, +14.1 points above that line.
Across the wider county, Miami-Dade County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY is one.
The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 76.4%.
The school occupies a high-density site. SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 49%: 275 students in 2018 compared to 410 in 2025.
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