SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL
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 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% 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 22 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
About SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL
SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL is a primary school of very small scale in MIAMI, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE, serveing 224 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL sits 63% below that benchmark.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 7% 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, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 33% 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, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 64.4%; actual is 86.9%, +22.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the surrounding community, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: KENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 82.6%.
SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL operates from an inner-city location. SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
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