SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON

SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in HOMESTEAD, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, works with 574 students in grades K through 8.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder looks like 9% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON 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 39.8%; SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON posts 73.9%, +34.1 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON has declined 24%, going from 759 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 84% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

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