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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 4
Number of Night-Schools 1
Location, and Name of School  Columbia Tenn Freedmen's School
When opened  June 1865 no vacation since
Societies &c., Patrons  Old School Presbyterian Church
Number of Schools sustained by freedmen 0
Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen 0
Number of teachers transported by Buerau 0
Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 1
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau 0
Whole number of teachers  Supt & 4 White 0 Colored  
Whole number of pupils enrolled 89  Male 119  Female 218 + 20 night S. = 238
Number of pupils enrolled last report 221
Number left school this month 22
Number of new scholars this month 18
Average attendance 173
Number of pupils paying tuition 114 - 25 cts each which goes for expenses & Building
Number of White pupils 0
Number always present 77
Number always punctual 35
Number over 16 years of age 29
Number in Alphabet 10
Number who spell and read easy lessons 115
Number of advanced readers 92
Number in geography 21
Number in arithmetic 47
Number in higher branches 16
Number in writing 81
Number on needlework 0
Number free before the war 2
Number of Sabbath Schools 1
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 97

To these questions give exact or approximate answers. 
1. How many of above Schools are graded? 4 How many grades? 2
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? White,   Colored,  
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,   Colored,  
6. How many Industrial Schools? Whole number of pupils in all? State the kind of work done,  
7. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month, $28.45 applied to expenses & Building
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 Teachers salaries $195
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, How many pupils in all?  
11. Remarks  Mr T J White told me that he reports to you. He is a col'd man & has a school of about 40 scholars in this place.

195
80
275

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