Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School

Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School operates as a tight-knit elementary-level community in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by Atlanta Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 390 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 36% leaner than typical.

Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School is one of 87 schools operated by Atlanta Public Schools, a district that caters to 49,945 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School reports that nearly all students (92%) are Black; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 24.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fulton County) records that median household income runs about $95,292, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Harper-Archer Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.2%.

Bazoline E. Usher/Collier Heights Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 440 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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