SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)

Located at 305 NE 2ND RD, in HOMESTEAD, Florida, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) is a cozy high school that hosts 497 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by MIAMI-DADE. That puts it 52% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) is among them.

On the student-mix side, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 8% Black, 6% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.7%; this one delivers 48.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) is one.

Nearest neighbor: SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD), around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 63.7%.

SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) operates from a commuter-belt location. SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) has rose 47%, going from 339 students in 2018 to 497 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 6% across the same window.

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