SOMERSET ACADEMY

SOMERSET ACADEMY operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida, operated by BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 645 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within BROWARD, which oversees 325 schools and 243,591 students, SOMERSET ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOMERSET ACADEMY lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%; the rest looks like 11% Black, 10% White, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SOMERSET ACADEMY has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.8:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at SOMERSET ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOMERSET ACADEMY 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 62.1%; SOMERSET ACADEMY posts 81.8%, +19.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), SOMERSET ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SOUTH 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. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOMERSET ACADEMY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 77.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. As a public charter, SOMERSET ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOMERSET ACADEMY has decreased 31%, going from 941 students in 2018 to 645 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 in 2025.

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