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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT,
For the Month of October 1866.

A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one School.
To be forwarded as soon as possible after the 1st of each month.

Number of Day-Schools 1. Graded School in 3 Divisions.
Number of Night-Schools 1.
Location, or the Name of School  O.S. Presb. Minion School, Clarksville, Tenn.
When opened 17th Sept 1866
Societies, &c., Patrons  Committee on Freedmen. Presb. Ch. U.S.A.
Number of Schools sustained by freedmen   
Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen   
Number of teachers transported by Bureau Two
Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 
None entirely. One partly.
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau  None entirely. One partly.
Whole number of teachers 3 White [[strikethrough]] Colored [[/strikethrough]] Total 3. 
a.1 Whole number of pupils [[strikethrough]] enrolled [[/strikethrough]] 68 Male 107 Female Total 175.
a.2 Number of pupils enrolled last report 51 Male 78 Female  Total 129.
a.3 Number left school this month Records imperfect.
a.4 Number of new scholars this month  Records imperfect.
Average attendance  55 Male 87 Female Total 142.
Number of pupils paying tuition Last Mo. 114 This mo. 38
Number of White pupils Male 0 Female 0
Number always present Male 55 Female 87 Total 142
Number always punctual Records imperfect.
Number over 16 years of age  Male 7  Female 8 Total 15.
b.1 Number in Alphabet Male 2 Female 3 Total 5.
b.2 Number who spell and read easy lessons Male 40 60 Female Total 100.
b.3 Number of advanced readers  Male 20 Female 22  Total 42
Number in geography Male 15 Female 27. Total 42.
Number in arithmetic Male 35. Female 49. Total 84.
Number in higher branches Male 6 Female 6 Total 12
Number in writing Male 22 Female 42 Total 64.
Number on needlework   
Number free before the war   
Number of Sabbath Schools 1.   
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools  Male 40  Female 60  Total about 100.

(To these questions give exact or approximate answers.)
1. How many of above Schools are graded? 1 How many grades? 3.
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? 1. Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? about 30.
3. How many Teachers in the above Day or Night Schools? White,   Colored,  
4. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge, and not reported above? 1 Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 125
5. How many Teachers in the above Sabbath Schools? 3 White, Colored, 0. 
6. How many Industrial Schools? 0. Whole number of pupils in all? 0. State the kind of work done, 0. 
7. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month,  $22.
8. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, $51.80
9. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties $195. Teacher & Supt Salaries per mo. 
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, 0. How many pupils in all? 0.
11. Remarks. The numbers reported above are the nearest approximation to the exact amt I can make.
a. Report these so that 2nd - 3d & 4th = 1st
b. No pupil reckoned in either one of these should be reckoned in either of the other two.
Return to me the last week in Oct. D. Burt.

E. McKinney Teacher
Supt of Presb Mission
Schools.

This report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number, or cypher.

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