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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT,
For the Month of November 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 4
Number of Night-Schools 1 
Location, or the Name of School Freedmen's School Columbia, Tenn.
When opened June 1 1865
Societies &c., Patrons Old School Presbyterian Church Committee on Freedmen 
Number of Schools sustained by freedmen 1
Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen 0
Number of teachers transported by Bureau 4
Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 1 
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau 0  
Whole number of teachers Supt & 4 teachers White 5  Colored  0
Whole number of pupils enrolled 85 Male 136 Female = Total 221
Number of pupils enrolled last report 160
Number left school this month 7
Number of new scholars this month 68   
Average attendance 151
Number of pupils paying tuition 92  25 cts each all applied to the Building
Number of White pupils 0
Number always present 35
Number always punctual 47
Number over 16 years of age 35   
Number in Alphabet 15
Number who spell and read easy lessons 65
Number of advanced readers 141
Number in geography 35
Number in arithmetic 51
Number in higher branches 18
Number in writing 102
Number on needlework 0
Number free before the war 2
Number of Sabbath Schools 1
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 79

(To these questions give exact or approximate answers.)
1. How many of above Schools are graded? 2 How many grades? 2
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? 1 Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?  
3. How many Teachers in the above Day or Night Schools? 1  White, 0 Colored, 1
4. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge, and not reported above? 2 Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?  
5. How many teachers in the above Sabbath Schools? White, 0  Colored, all
6. How many Industrial Schools? 0 Whole number of pupils in all? State the kind of work done,  
7. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month,  
8. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, $64.75
9. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties $235. & 64 75 = $299.75
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, How many pupils in all?  
11. Remarks
We call it tuition paid, and it all goes for expenses & new Building

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