The top reported proficiency rate is 73% in Math. The lowest is 62% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Somerset Village Academy
Somerset Village Academy sits on NW 29th Street in Wilton Manors, a small "Island City" enclave tucked between Fort Lauderdale and Oakland Park in Broward County. The school is a charter, serving kindergarten through fifth grade, and its enrollment is small for an elementary school. The community it draws from is economically stretched: the vast majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, making this one of the higher-need student bodies by that measure. Racially, the school is predominantly Black and Hispanic, with a small share of white and multiracial students. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available, so parents whose children may need those services would want to ask the school directly about what is in place.
On state assessments, Somerset Village Academy's recent FAST results tell a mixed story. Math is a relative strength. Third graders scored well above the midpoint on FAST Math, and fourth and fifth graders performed even stronger, with fifth grade reaching a genuinely solid proficiency rate. Science in fifth grade, measured by the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, came in comparably strong. Reading is where parents should look more carefully. Third-grade ELA proficiency was solid, but the fourth-grade result drops sharply, falling below half of students reaching proficiency. Fifth grade recovers to a moderate level but remains below the school's own math performance. That fourth-grade ELA dip is the most visible soft spot in the academic picture, and a parent would be reasonable to ask the school what it has observed and what it is doing in response. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving, holding, or declining.
The school serves a neighborhood that, by Wilton Manors' character, is anything but generic. Publicly reported descriptions place the city as a walkable, tight-knit place with a well-known LGBTQ+ identity, a lively commercial corridor along Wilton Drive, and residential streets that are quiet and tree-lined one block off the action. The city is almost entirely built out, with new density coming slowly through mixed-use redevelopment projects rather than new neighborhoods. The housing market reflects South Florida's broader pressure: home values in the surrounding zip code sit near the national median but have edged down slightly year over year, while rents have ticked up. Rental costs consume a high share of the area's income, which mirrors the economic reality of most of the school's families.
Broward County operates a large district, and Somerset Village Academy is one of its charter schools. The district brief search did not return confirmed information about recent parent-relevant changes at the district level, so that context was left out rather than guessed at.
Because this is a K-5 school, there is no graduation rate and no AP or dual-enrollment pathway to assess here; those metrics simply do not apply to this grade band. Program details were not available in the data, so specifics about enrichment, arts, or extended learning were not reported.
For a family weighing Somerset Village Academy, the picture is a school with genuine math and science strength at the upper elementary grades, a real reading gap in fourth grade that warrants a direct conversation with teachers, a predominantly low-income student body in a small and distinctive city, and a charter structure within the larger Broward system. Whether the school's community character and academic profile are the right match depends on what a family is prioritizing for their child in those foundational years.
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