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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY this year?
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Enrollment
527
Elementary
DISTRICT 911 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LUCIE·NCES 120177008898
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY
500 SW BETHANY DR, PORT ST LUCIE, FL 34986 · (772) 301-1716 · St. Lucie County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL527 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
338 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 98 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 42% larger than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
61.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
55.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.4% | 55.3% |
| 2023-24 | 64.5% | 53.6% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY's state test result (57.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY this school | 527 | 64.1% | 57.1% |
| LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 543 | 67.8% | 46.9% |
| INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY VERO BEACH | 444 | 64.2% | 62.3% |
| SEA BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 502 | 65.9% | 46.4% |
| J. D. PARKER SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY STUART | 531 | 66.7% | 45.4% |
| DUNEDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DUNEDIN | 474 | 68.1% | 45.7% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Lucie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #991 of 2,136 | #7 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #1,314 of 2,149 ▼ 103 | #21 of 31 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.4% | #767 of 2,149 ▼ 217 | #5 of 31 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 527 | #1,310 of 2,267 | #26 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.1:1 | #1,994 of 2,077 | #31 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.3% | #260 of 2,108 | #16 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.1% | #731 of 2,188 | #12 of 31 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
527
+496 (+1600%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 527 | 25 | 21.1:1 | 64% (338) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 23 | 21.0:1 | 50% (242) |
| 2022-23 | 339 | 19 | 17.8:1 | 60% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 31 | 2 | 15.5:1 | 42% (13) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY.
About SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY is a mid-sized elementary school in PORT ST LUCIE, Florida, one of the schools in ST. LUCIE. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 527 students enrolled.
The ST. LUCIE system has 53 schools and 49,308 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY is Hispanic, with 40% of students. The next largest groups are 29% Black, 24% White, and 6% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 18 points above the 22% share among St. Lucie County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 69%.
Classroom staffing at SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY totals 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 21.1:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. Federal data show 64% of students (338) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Florida public elementary schools, SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY outscored 62%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (57.1%) and its predicted rate (49.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
In the surrounding county, St. Lucie County, median household income comes to about $71,457, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. The county has 57 public schools and about 50,809 students.
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL OF ST. LUCIE, about 0.8 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY is 3rd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY is a publicly funded charter school.
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY had 31 students in 2020-21 and 527 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 15.5:1 in 2020-21 to 21.1:1 in 2024-25.
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St. Lucie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
360,500
Census ACS
Median income
$71,457
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
50,809 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. LUCIE
- FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,178 students
- TREASURE COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,124 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGHHigh · 2,914 students
- FORT PIERCE WESTWOOD ACADEMY THE W.E.S.T. PREP MAGNETHigh · 1,956 students
- PORT ST. LUCIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,793 students
- OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,727 students
Other schools in PORT ST LUCIE
- TREASURE COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,124 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGHHigh · 2,914 students
- PORT ST. LUCIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,793 students
- OAK HAMMOCK K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,727 students
- MANATEE ACADEMY K-8Elementary · 1,700 students
- ST. LUCIE WEST K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,662 students
Nearby schools
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL OF ST. LUCIE0.8 mi · 1,413
- ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH1.0 mi · 2,914
- MANATEE ACADEMY K-81.1 mi · 1,700
- ST. LUCIE WEST K-8 SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,662
- WEST GATE K-8 SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,639
- SOMERSET COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.9 mi · 1,463
Frequently asked questions
About SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANYHow large is SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY?
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY enrolls approximately 527 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY serve?
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY?
Approximately 21.1:1 students per teacher at SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY.
How diverse is SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY?
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY reports a student body of 24% White, 40% Hispanic, 29% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY?
SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY is overseen by ST. LUCIE in St. Lucie County.
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