Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 130012003030
Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School
631 Harwell Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30318 · (404) 802-5700 · Fulton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
390 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 39% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
25.4%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.4pp since 2021
Math
27.4%
GA avg 44.6% . +15.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 15 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.4% | 27.4% |
| 2023-24 | 24.5% | 21.9% |
| 2022-23 | 15.0% | 18.2% |
| 2021-22 | 18.0% | 12.0% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School
Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School's state test result (24.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School this school | 390 | 100.0% | 24.6% |
| Continental Colony Elementary School Atlanta | 368 | 100.0% | 19.5% |
| Flat Shoals Elementary School Decatur | 373 | 100.0% | 12.7% |
| Heritage Academy Elementary School Atlanta | 375 | 100.0% | 15.1% |
| Columbia Elementary School Decatur | 364 | 100.0% | 16.2% |
| Browns Mill Elementary School Lithonia | 411 | 100.0% | 15.8% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #941 of 1,208 | #80 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #917 of 1,215 ▲ 88 | #77 of 113 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #867 of 1,215 ▲ 66 | #74 of 113 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.4pp | #91 of 1,183 | #15 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #1,114 of 1,324 | #92 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #116 of 1,301 | #29 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.5% | #1,245 of 1,301 | #91 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #26 of 1,312 | #24 of 119 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #478 of 854 | #59 of 92 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
390
-23 (-6%) vs 2020
+5% since 2010-11, when it was 370
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 390 | 35.5 | 11.0:1 | 100% (390) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 39.8 | 10.2:1 | 100% (405) |
| 2022-23 | 398 | 37.9 | 10.5:1 | 100% (398) |
| 2020-21 | 413 | 33 | 12.5:1 | 100% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 440 | 34.6 | 12.7:1 | 100% (440) |
| 2015-16 | 412 | 30 | 13.7:1 | 99% (409) |
| 2010-11 | 370 | 32 | 11.6:1 | 99% (365) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (440 to 390); teachers up 3% (34.6 to 35.5).
About Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School
Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School serves students in Atlanta, Georgia, as a small elementary school. It serves 390 students in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students.
Atlanta Public Schools counts 87 schools and 49,945 students, including Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School.
The student body at Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School is 92% Black. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Fulton County residents are about 43% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 14% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 35.5 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 11.0:1. That is 2.4 students per teacher below the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School is 100%. The rate at public schools in Fulton County averages 62%, lower than here.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 25.7% for Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School. The school posts 24.6%, 1.1 points below the prediction.
Fulton County has these Census figures: the median household income is $95,292, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 59% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Fulton County is home to 205 public schools and about 138,270 public school students.
The school nearest to Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School is Harper-Archer Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School is 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 6% from 2020-21, when Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School had 413 students, to 2024-25, when it had 390. The ratio was 12.5:1 in 2020-21 and 11.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Fulton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,076,561
Census ACS
Median income
$95,292
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
205
138,270 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School?
Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School enrolls approximately 390 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School serve?
Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School is approximately 11.0:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 5% Hispanic, 92% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School in?
Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School is part of Atlanta Public Schools.
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