SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL

Set in WELLINGTON, Florida, SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL is a tiny four-year high school, overseen by PALM BEACH. It instructs 104 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 90% below typical.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL records that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 34% Hispanic, 23% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 53% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 62.4%; this one comes in at 41.4%, -21.0 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate median household income runs about $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL is one.

SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON K-8 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 WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 68.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL 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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