Usher/Collier Heights Elementary stresses the importance of providing children with a well-rounded education.
The school is named for the historic Collier Heights community, the first neighborhood in the country built by African-American planners for a burgeoning African-American middle class. The school also bears the name of Ms. Bazoline E. Usher, the former supervisor of education for minority pupils in Atlanta. Ms. Usher also helped form Atlanta's first African -American Girl Scout troop.
Usher has been named a Distinguished Title I School and a Platinum School. The faculty and staff believe that the school will experience great success with the support of parents and the community at large.