The top reported proficiency rate is 87% in Math. The lowest is 76% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Somerset Academy Elementary South Campus
Somerset Academy Elementary South Campus is a charter elementary school serving kindergarten through fifth grade, located on Sunset Drive in Miami. It operates under the Broward County district umbrella, though its address places it physically in Miami-Dade territory near the South Miami neighborhood. The school is small relative to most elementary schools, with a roughly even distribution across the lower grades and a noticeably larger fifth-grade cohort.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, which reflects the demographic texture of the surrounding South Miami corridor. A meaningful but not majority share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, suggesting the school draws from a mix of economic backgrounds. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the records reviewed, so families with children who need specialized services may want to ask the school directly about those supports.
On state assessments, the academic picture is genuinely strong in mathematics. Across third, fourth, and fifth grades on Florida's FAST Math exam, proficiency runs from the low-to-mid eighties through the low nineties, with fourth grade at the top of that range. These are high results by Florida standards. Fifth-grade science on the Florida Statewide Science Assessment also comes in well above the midpoint, a solid indicator for upper-elementary readiness. Reading and ELA results are more varied. Third-grade ELA proficiency is in the low seventies, fourth grade drops somewhat below that, and fifth grade jumps sharply to the low nineties. That fifth-grade result is impressive, but the gap between grades is wide enough that parents of incoming third- and fourth-graders may want to ask the school what its ELA instruction and supports look like at those grade levels. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these patterns are improving, stable, or recent.
Because this school covers only kindergarten through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate and no AP or dual-enrollment pathway to assess. Those measures simply do not apply here.
The surrounding neighborhood sits in a part of Miami that is more residential and walkable than many parts of the city, near the Coral Way and South Miami areas that publicly reported sources describe as tree-lined with a mix of Mediterranean Revival homes and newer condos. The Metrorail runs through the South Miami corridor, connecting the area to downtown and beyond, which matters for families who rely on transit. Housing costs in this zip code are well above the Florida state median and substantially above the national median, and the monthly cost of ownership as reflected in current mortgage rates places this among the more expensive residential pockets in South Florida. Rents in the area also consume a high share of a typical household budget by national comparison. Families relocating here should factor that into the full picture of what living near this school looks like financially.
Miami broadly has seen population growth at the city level in recent years, though publicly reported data indicates Miami-Dade County as a whole experienced a net population loss in the most recent year tracked, partly attributed to an immigration slowdown, and the county's public school system saw enrollment decline alongside it. Whether that affects charter school enrollment at Somerset specifically is not something the available data addresses.
District-level strategic changes for Broward were not surfaced during research, so that context is left out rather than guessed at. No program-specific information was available for this campus beyond what the grade band and charter designation convey. Families whose children thrive in structured, academically focused environments and who are drawn to a school with notably strong math outcomes in a mixed-income urban setting will find the most relevant picture in those results, balanced against the ELA variation in the middle grades.
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