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SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS)
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS)
SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) operates as an average-sized elementary school in MIRAMAR, Florida, run under BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 517 students spanning grades K through 5.
Within BROWARD, which oversees 325 schools and 243,591 students, SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 26% Black, 7% White, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Broward County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.8%; SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) posts 80.5%, +30.7 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, Broward County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).
SOMERSET ACADEMY MIDDLE (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS). Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 61.6%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS) has edged down 6%, going from 548 students in 2018 to 517 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 30% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.
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