SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD

SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD, a moderately sized elementary school in HOMESTEAD, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, works with 551 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD reports that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 6% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 39.0%; actual is 70.1%, +31.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

ACCELERATION ACADEMIES LLC HOMESTEAD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 55.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. As a public charter, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 531 students in 2018 compared to 551 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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