SOMERSET CAREER ACADEMY

SOMERSET CAREER ACADEMY operates as a minimally staffed four-year high school in PORT SAINT LUCIE, Florida, operated by ST. LUCIE. Current enrollment sits at 40 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 96% below the state mean of about 1,035.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOMERSET CAREER ACADEMY shows that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 43% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. 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, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Lucie County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Lucie County indicate median household income runs about $71,457, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Lucie County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), SOMERSET CAREER ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOMERSET COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site. SOMERSET CAREER ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, members of the SOMERSET CAREER ACADEMY community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.