SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY

SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in PORT ST LUCIE, Florida, one of the schools within ST. LUCIE, works with 527 students in grades K through 5.

ST. LUCIE runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 49,308 students. SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 29% Black, 24% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 57.1%, a residual of +8.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for St. Lucie County put the typical household earns roughly $71,457 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Lucie County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL OF ST. LUCIE, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. SOMERSET ACADEMY BETHANY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.