SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE

SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in PORT ST LUCIE, Florida, overseen by ST. LUCIE, teacheing 687 students in grades K through 8.

ST. LUCIE runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 49,308 students. SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 31% White, 26% Black, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for St. Lucie County shows median household earnings sit near $71,457, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, St. Lucie County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), of which SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE is one.

WINDMILL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE 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. SOMERSET ACADEMY ST. LUCIE's enrollment has rose 94% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 687). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 42% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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