The top reported proficiency rate is 50% in English language arts. The lowest is 26% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Somerset Academy Pompano (k-5)
Somerset Academy Pompano (K-5) is a public charter elementary school located in Pompano Beach, serving kindergarten through fifth grade. It is part of the Somerset Academy network and sits within the Broward County school system, though as a charter it operates with its own enrollment process separate from traditional district assignment.
The school is small, with a total enrollment that falls in the lower range for an elementary serving six grade levels. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with Black and white students making up much smaller shares. A very large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a community that is economically working-class by most measures. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in the materials reviewed, which is a gap a parent would reasonably want to follow up on directly with the school.
Academic results on Florida's FAST assessments come in unevenly across grade levels. Third grade math stands out as a clear strength, with a majority of students reaching proficiency, one of the more encouraging single results in the school's data set. ELA results at third and fifth grade land at roughly half of students proficient. The picture dims considerably by fourth and fifth grade in math, where proficiency falls well below half of students, and fifth grade science results are also low. These are state-reported figures, and a parent looking at the math trajectory from third grade onward would reasonably want to ask the school what is driving the drop and what supports are in place for students who are not yet at grade level. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible from this data to say whether results are improving, declining, or holding steady.
No program offerings data was provided for this school, so it is not possible to characterize enrichment, arts, after-school, or other programming from what was reviewed.
Because the school stops at fifth grade, graduation rate is not applicable here, and middle and high school planning would come later through either the Somerset network or the broader Broward County district.
Pompano Beach as a setting is worth understanding on its own terms. Publicly reported sources describe it as a mid-size coastal Broward city that has historically sat in the shadow of Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton in terms of cost and profile, but is now in the middle of a pronounced development surge. Luxury residential towers, a large downtown redevelopment along Atlantic Boulevard anchored by a master developer agreement, and major hospitality projects including a rebranded casino-resort complex are reshaping particularly the beach corridor and downtown core. The neighborhood around the school, which sits inland on NW 33rd Street, is removed from that beachfront energy. The city's inland residential fabric is more car-dependent and quieter than the pier district.
Housing in the zip code puts home values modestly below the Florida statewide benchmark, and slightly below national median levels, with prices having edged down year over year. Rents, by contrast, have ticked upward. By affordability measures, both ownership and renting are stretched relative to income, with rent consuming a very large share of a typical household's budget. This context matches the school's own economic picture: the families it serves are navigating a genuinely expensive housing market on limited incomes.
The school sits within Broward County's single district structure. The district brief search did not return confirmed recent parent-relevant changes, so that context was left out rather than estimated.
For a family weighing this school, the honest picture is a small charter elementary in a working-class pocket of a city undergoing significant change, with a student population that largely reflects that economic reality. Third grade math performance gives something concrete to point to. The drop in math proficiency by fourth and fifth grade, and the low science result, are patterns a parent should ask the school to explain directly.
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