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If you had an hour of school board time for SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD), what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
484
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039007387
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)
305 NE 2ND RD, HOMESTEAD, FL 33030 · (305) 258-7497 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL484 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 73% of Florida public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
396 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 124 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 180 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 180 | 37% |
Student demographics
24%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
54.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.1pp since 2023
Math
68.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.1% | 68.1% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 63.0% |
% 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
56.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% 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 16 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 MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)'s state test result (56.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) this school | 484 | 81.8% | 56.1% |
| SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) HOMESTEAD | 385 | 79.5% | 54.0% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 594 | 79.1% | 67.8% |
| ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL MIDDLE MIAMI | 299 | 79.3% | 74.1% |
| IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 783 | 76.6% | 54.0% |
| MIAMI COMMUNITY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL FLORIDA CITY | 323 | 90.4% | 39.8% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #239 of 560 | #33 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #172 of 560 ▲ 18 | #26 of 72 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #276 of 560 ▼ 45 | #39 of 72 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 484 | #481 of 584 | #47 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.2:1 | #525 of 547 | #58 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.1% | #516 of 553 | #35 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.8% | #12 of 565 | #5 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #314 of 379 | #42 of 49 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
484
-21 (-4%) vs 2020
+361% since 2010-11, when it was 105
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 | 484 | 20 | 24.2:1 | 82% (396) |
| 2023-24 | 498 | 14 | 35.6:1 | 84% (416) |
| 2022-23 | 470 | 15 | 31.3:1 | 80% (377) |
| 2020-21 | 505 | N/A | N/A | 82% (412) |
| 2017-18 | 510 | 35 | 14.6:1 | 79% (403) |
| 2015-16 | 374 | 17 | 22.0:1 | 26% (96) |
| 2010-11 | 105 | 7 | 15.0:1 | 65% (68) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD).
About SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)
A small middle school in HOMESTEAD, Florida, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) is part of MIAMI-DADE. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 484 students. That compares with an average of about 794 students for middle schools in Florida.
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) reports to MIAMI-DADE, which has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
Hispanic students are 87% of those enrolled at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD). The remaining shares are 6% Black and 5% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Miami-Dade County's population at about 69%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 24, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 20 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 24.2:1. Compared with the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida, this school's ratio is higher. On the income side, 82% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County, the school's rate is higher.
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 73% of Florida public middle schools.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) is among the top 10% of schools in Florida. Predicted: 40.2%. Actual: 56.1%.
In the wider Miami-Dade County area, median household income comes to about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Miami-Dade County counts 561 public schools with about 335,817 students.
Among nearby public schools, SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) is closest at less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 60.5% proficiency; SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) posts 56.1%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large. SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
Enrollment decreased 4% over 4 years, reaching 484 in 2024-25.
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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
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)0.0 mi · 497
- SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES HOMESTEAD0.3 mi · 130
- CHAMBERS HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 243
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD0.4 mi · 551
- Acceleration Academies Llc Homestead0.4 mi · 170
- NEVA KING COOPER EDUCATIONAL CENTER0.7 mi · 86
Frequently asked questions
About SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)How many students attend SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)?
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) enrolls approximately 484 students in grades 06-08.
Is SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) have?
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)?
At SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD), the student body is approximately 5% White, 87% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) public or private?
SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
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