SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD)

SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) is one of the low-enrollment middle-grades schools in HOMESTEAD, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE, with 385 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). The remainder comes out to 7% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) logs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 38.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) shows that median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL HOMESTEAD, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD). On composite proficiency, SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site. SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL (HOMESTEAD) 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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