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[Ed. Form, No. 4] Teacher's Monthly School Report For the Month of December 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 Number of Night-Schools 1 Location, or the Name of School Springfield Tenn When opened Oct 13 1866 Societies &c., Patrons A.M.A. Number of Schools sustained by freedmen 0 Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen 1 Number of teachers transported by Bureau 0 Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 0 Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau 1 Whole number of teachers 1 White 1 Colored 0 Whole number of pupils enrolled 119 Male 60 Female 59 Number of pupils enrolled last report 61 Number left school this month 7 Number of new scholars this month 65 Average attendance 37% Number of pupils paying tuition 0 Number of White pupils 0 Number always present 16 Number always punctual 0 Number over 16 years of age 60 Number in Alphabet 16 Number who spell and read easy lessons 90 Number of advanced readers 13 Number in geography 3 Number in arithmetic 10 Number in higher branches 0 Number in writing 8 Number on needlework 0 Number free before the war 1 Number of Sabbath Schools 1 Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 80 (To these questions give exact or approximate answers.) 1. How many of above Schools are graded? 0 How many grades? 0 2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? 0 Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 0 3. How many Teachers in the above Day or Night Schools? 0 White, 0 Colored, 0 4. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge, and not reported above? 0 Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 0 5. How many teachers in the above Sabbath Schools? 0 White, 0 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, $17.40 8. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, 0 9. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties $54.60 10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, 0 How many pupils in all? 0 11. Remarks I. C. Steward Tch'r This report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number, or cypher.