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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY this year?
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Enrollment
628
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039007851
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY
1000 OLD DIXIE HWY, HOMESTEAD, FL 33030 · (305) 247-3993 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL628 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 74% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
543 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 58 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 12% larger than its 8th grade class (58).
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
61.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +10.4pp since 2023
Math
60.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 60.1% |
| 2023-24 | 50.6% | 64.8% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
58.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY's state test result (58.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY this school | 628 | 86.5% | 58.1% |
| MATER ACADEMY EAST CHARTER SCHOOL MIAMI | 573 | 84.3% | 76.3% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD HOMESTEAD | 551 | 84.2% | 70.1% |
| IMATER ACADEMY HIALEAH | 590 | 91.0% | 57.2% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON HOMESTEAD | 574 | 82.6% | 73.9% |
| MIAMI COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL FLORIDA CITY | 545 | 89.2% | 40.1% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #957 of 2,136 | #144 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #1,090 of 2,149 ▼ 341 | #176 of 279 ▼ 59 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #793 of 2,149 ▲ 343 | #122 of 279 ▲ 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 628 | #936 of 2,267 | #89 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #1,918 of 2,077 | #239 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.7% | #2,011 of 2,108 | #178 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.5% | #48 of 2,188 | #11 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.1% | #369 of 621 | #38 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
628
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 21.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 628 | 32 | 19.6:1 | 86% (543) |
| 2023-24 | 625 | N/A | N/A | 90% (564) |
| 2022-23 | 624 | N/A | N/A | 95% (591) |
| 2020-21 | 612 | 29 | 21.1:1 | 86% (525) |
| 2017-18 | 581 | N/A | N/A | 84% (490) |
| 2015-16 | 571 | 25 | 22.8:1 | 85% (488) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY.
About SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY is a medium-sized elementary school in HOMESTEAD, Florida. It covers kindergarten through 8, with a total enrollment of 628 students.
MIAMI-DADE operates 527 schools. Combined enrollment is 335,685 students.
Federal enrollment data show SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY is 93% Hispanic. Other groups make up 3% White and 3% Black. Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 13% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 19.6 students per teacher and 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 48% for public schools in Miami-Dade County.
The allk12 Grade for SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY is B+. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 74% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY is a top-10% school in Florida on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests of 37.8% with an actual 58.1%.
Miami-Dade County census figures show that the median household income is $71,753, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Miami-Dade County is home to 561 public schools and about 335,817 public school students.
CHAMBERS HIGH SCHOOL is located about 0.4 miles from SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY. The five-mile area around SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 5 nearby schools that report test results, SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY ranks 3rd on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY is one of the charter schools in Florida.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 16 more students in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 21.1:1 to 19.6:1.
Community posts for SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in HOMESTEAD
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- HOMESTEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,323 students
- KEYS GATE CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 1,950 students
- SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMSElementary · 1,890 students
- SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,304 students
- GATEWAY ENVIRONMENTAL K-8 LEARNING CENTERElementary · 1,165 students
Nearby schools
- CHAMBERS HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 243
- SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES HOMESTEAD0.6 mi · 130
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)0.7 mi · 497
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)0.7 mi · 484
- SOMERSET ARTS ACADEMY0.8 mi · 413
- MEDICAL ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (M.A.S.T.) @ HOM0.8 mi · 511
Frequently asked questions
About SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMYHow large is SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY?
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY enrolls approximately 628 students in grades KG-08.
Is SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY have?
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.6:1.
How diverse is SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY?
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY reports a student body of 3% White, 93% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY?
SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.