SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY SUNSET vs ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL PREPARATORY

Somerset Preparatory Academy Sunset and Academir Charter School Preparatory sit 5.6 miles apart in Miami, Florida, and are separated by just 0.1 overall rating points — Somerset at 9.2/10 and Academir at 9.1/10. The state rank gap is similarly tight but meaningful: Somerset holds the #24 spot among 3,777 Florida schools while Academir lands at #34, placing both schools comfortably in the top 1% statewide. For parents focused on absolute prestige, Somerset edges ahead, but the real differences emerge in the underlying subscores.

Academically, the two schools diverge more sharply. Somerset Preparatory Academy Sunset earns a near-perfect academic score of 9.9/10 versus Academir Charter School Preparatory's 8.9/10 — a full point gap that signals meaningfully stronger proficiency outcomes at Somerset. The growth story flips, however: Academir scores 9.8/10 for student growth compared to Somerset's 9.4/10, indicating Academir is accelerating its students' progress at a slightly faster rate. Families prioritizing raw achievement levels will lean toward Somerset; those who weight year-over-year gains may favor Academir.

The demographic contrast between these two Miami charters is the most pronounced difference in this comparison. Somerset Preparatory Academy Sunset enrolls 432 students with 46% qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Academir Charter School Preparatory serves 1,148 students — more than 2.6 times Somerset's enrollment — with 82% of students on free or reduced-price lunch. That 36-percentage-point gap in economic disadvantage matters both as a signal of community served and as context for interpreting each school's impressive academic scores. Student-teacher ratios are nearly identical: 16.6:1 at Somerset versus 16.9:1 at Academir, so classroom access is not a differentiating factor.

Both schools span grades KG–08, so families with kids from kindergarten through middle school can stay at either campus without a transition. The grade-band match makes this a true apples-to-apples comparison on structure, with the meaningful decisions landing on school size, community composition, and the academic-versus-growth trade-off.