SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY

SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY operates as a heavily attended elementary-level community in MIAMI, Florida, operated by BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 992 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 64% bigger than typical.

Within BROWARD, which oversees 325 schools and 243,591 students, SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 40% White, 8% Asian, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 110.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.5%, the actual is 76.7%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Broward County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

WATERS EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 78.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site. SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY 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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