SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, a tight-knit middle school in MIAMI, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE, enrolls 594 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 794.

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

On demographics, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 41.5%; actual is 67.8%, +26.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 66.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 146% since 2018, when it stood at 241 (now 594). Class-load math has fell: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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