SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL

SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the rural-scale middle schools in MIAMI, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE, with 259 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 67% leaner than that benchmark.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 5% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL records 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 19% of students at SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL 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 71.5%; SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 87.7%, +16.2 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 76.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site. SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL 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. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOMERSET ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL has expanded 265%, going from 71 students in 2018 to 259 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 82% to 94% over that span.

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