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SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE
SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE, an intimate primary school in CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, operated by BROWARD, enrolls 426 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE sits 29% leaner than that benchmark.
Across the 325 schools in BROWARD (243,591 students total), SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE lists that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 32% Black, 14% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Broward County's rate of about 38%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 49.7%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE is one campus in the mix.
SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site. SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 1675%: 24 students in 2018 compared to 426 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 83% to 32% over that span.
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