Somerset Preparatory Academy Charter School at North Lauder, North Lauderdale FL

Original Research by School Decision on Somerset Preparatory Academy Charter School at North Lauder

Somerset Preparatory Academy Charter School at North Lauderdale is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade charter school located on Kimberly Boulevard in North Lauderdale, a compact, densely populated residential suburb in north-central Broward County. It operates as part of the Broward County Public Schools system but functions under charter governance. The school draws from a community that is majority Black with a large Hispanic population, reflects a strong Caribbean cultural presence publicly reported in the area, and is characterized by working-to-middle-income households in a neighborhood of modest single-family homes and townhouses built largely in the 1970s and 1980s.

The student population is heavily economically disadvantaged, with nearly nine in ten students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school's racial and ethnic composition mirrors the surrounding community closely, with Black students making up the largest share and Hispanic students the second largest. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.

On Florida's FAST assessments for the most recent school year, the academic picture is mixed and varies considerably by grade and subject. In math, the upper-elementary and middle grades show the clearest strength: fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh graders all posted proficiency rates solidly above half, with sixth grade performing best among the tested groups. Third grade math and eighth grade math are considerably lower, each falling well under half of students reaching proficiency. Those gaps are wide enough that a parent of a third or eighth grader should ask the school directly about what supports are in place. ELA results are more compressed across grades, with most falling roughly between four and five and a half in ten students proficient. Sixth grade ELA is the relative high point, while third and seventh grade ELA are the lower ends. Fifth grade science was above half, while eighth grade science fell below four in ten. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability.

No graduation rate applies here, since the school does not serve high school grades. A comparison of this school's proficiency against other districts in Broward County was not calculable because the comparison set contained only one entity.

Program offerings were not available in the data provided, so it is not possible to say what electives, arts, athletics, or extracurriculars Somerset Preparatory offers at the K-8 level. A prospective family would want to ask the school directly about those offerings and about how the school approaches the transition into high school.

The surrounding North Lauderdale neighborhood is car-dependent with limited walkability. The city is fully built out, and residential home values are currently slightly below the Florida statewide median and roughly in line with the national figure, though both have dipped modestly year over year. Rents in the area consume a very large share of a typical household's income by standard affordability benchmarks, which is relevant context for families weighing whether this community is accessible. The city's parks system, including Hampton Pines Park and the Jerry Resnick Aquatic Center, provides meaningful recreational infrastructure within a small geographic footprint. Regional employment and services are largely accessed by car through the broader Fort Lauderdale metro economy.

The Broward district brief search did not surface confirmed parent-relevant recent changes before the research budget was exhausted, so district-level context on policy or program shifts was left out rather than guessed at.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 68% · ▼ 32 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 465%

School 65% · District 69% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 560%

School 60% · District 63% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 667%

School 67% · District 63% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 761%

School 61% · District 59% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 841%

School 41% · District 47% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 345%

School 45% · District 61% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 454%

School 54% · District 62% · ▼ 8 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 549%

School 49% · District 62% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 657%

School 57% · District 65% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 745%

School 45% · District 60% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 854%

School 54% · District 59% · ▼ 5 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Science

Grade 557%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 45% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.