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What's the most underrated thing about SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
551
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039007466
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD
300 SE 1ST DR, HOMESTEAD, FL 33030 · (305) 245-6108 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL551 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
17.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
464 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 18% larger than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
69.2%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
79.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +9.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.2% | 79.3% |
| 2023-24 | 72.1% | 70.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
70.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+31.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 31 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD's state test result (70.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD this school | 551 | 84.2% | 70.1% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON HOMESTEAD | 574 | 82.6% | 73.9% |
| SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY (HOMESTEAD) HOMESTEAD | 506 | 82.2% | 60.1% |
| MATER ACADEMY EAST CHARTER SCHOOL MIAMI | 573 | 84.3% | 76.3% |
| SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY HOMESTEAD | 628 | 86.5% | 58.1% |
| WAHNETA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER HAVEN | 491 | 81.5% | 43.2% |
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 CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #461 of 2,136 | #68 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #306 of 2,149 ▲ 226 | #54 of 279 ▲ 35 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #468 of 2,149 ▼ 169 | #79 of 279 ▼ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 551 | #1,214 of 2,267 | #120 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #1,491 of 2,077 | #166 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.1% | #1,948 of 2,108 | #141 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.2% | #76 of 2,188 | #16 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.8% | #477 of 621 | #54 of 73 |
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
551
-22 (-4%) vs 2020
+89% since 2010-11, when it was 292
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 | 551 | 32 | 17.2:1 | 84% (464) |
| 2023-24 | 571 | 29 | 19.7:1 | 85% (485) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 32 | 18.1:1 | 81% (470) |
| 2020-21 | 573 | N/A | N/A | 75% (432) |
| 2017-18 | 531 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 24% (127) |
| 2015-16 | 490 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 77% (378) |
| 2010-11 | 292 | 19 | 15.4:1 | 65% (191) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD.
About SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in HOMESTEAD, Florida. Federal data show 551 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
MIAMI-DADE enrolls 335,685 students, and its 527 schools include SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD.
Roughly 89% of students at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 6% Black and 3% White. County-wide, 69% of Miami-Dade County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD is 21%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD is 17.2:1, based on 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD counts 84% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD lands at A, ahead of 90% of Florida public elementary schools.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 39.0%. SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD posts 70.1%, 31.1 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Miami-Dade County, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD, Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools.
About 0.3 miles separate SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD from the closest public school, Acceleration Academies Llc Homestead. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD ranks 2nd of 6 on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD as Suburb: Large. SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD holds a charter, making it a public charter school.
In 2020-21, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD enrolled 573 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 551.
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Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in HOMESTEAD
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- HOMESTEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,323 students
- KEYS GATE CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 1,950 students
- SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMSElementary · 1,890 students
- SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,304 students
- GATEWAY ENVIRONMENTAL K-8 LEARNING CENTERElementary · 1,165 students
Nearby schools
- Acceleration Academies Llc Homestead0.3 mi · 170
- LINCOLN-MARTI SCHOOLS (INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS)0.4 mi · 210
- CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS)0.4 mi · 48
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)0.4 mi · 484
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)0.4 mi · 497
- SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES HOMESTEAD0.5 mi · 130
Frequently asked questions
About SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEADHow many students attend SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD?
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD enrolls approximately 551 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD serve?
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD is approximately 17.2:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD?
Student demographics at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD are roughly 3% White, 89% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD in?
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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