SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST

SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST operates as a compact elementary campus in BOCA RATON, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 391 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST reports that 55% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 33% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Palm Beach County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Palm Beach County shows median household earnings sit near $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST. On composite proficiency, SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOMERSET ACADEMY BOCA EAST has increased 11%, going from 352 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 28% to 33%.

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