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[ED. FORM, No. 4.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT,
For the Month of January 1867.

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, and Name of School [[strikethrough]] Lincoln School [[/strikethrough]] Shelbyville Tenn.
When opened Jan 1st 1867
Societies &c., Patrons   A.M.A. and W.F.A.C.
0 Number of Schools sustained by freedmen 0
1 Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen 1  
0 Number of teachers transported by Bureau 0 
2 Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 2 viz A.M.E.C. and 1st Col. Bap. Church
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau 0
2.2=4 Whole number of teachers 2 Day School White 2 Colored 0 + 4 Night School
154.12 0 Whole number of pupils enrolled 212 + 62 N.S. Male 100 + 54  Female 112 + 8 N.S.
281 Number of pupils enrolled last report 200 + 81 N.S. 
7 Number left school this month 7 
0 Number of new scholars this month  
Average attendance 165 Day School 40 Night School
Number of pupils paying tuition  Paid per School Relief (Freedmens)
Number of White pupils 0 
Number always present  0
Number always punctual   
Number over 16 years of age  22 Day Schoolers & 54 Night Schoolers
Number in Alphabet 32 Day Schoolers & 7 Night Scholars
Number who spell and read easy lessons 55 Day Scholars & 7 Night Schoolers
Number of [[strikethrough]] advanced [[/strikethrough]] in readers   2d 3d 4th 5th readers 125 Day School & 38 Night Spelling Scholars
Number in geography The school is taught from maps  
Number in arithmetic  Mental & Written 65 Day Scholars & 38 Night Scholars
Number in higher branches  Grammer 28 Day scholars - 
Number in writing 96 Day Scholars & 38 Night Scholars
Number on needlework   
Number free before the war 6 Day Scholars & 2 Night Scholars 
Number of Sabbath Schools 1
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 150 = Highest number in attendance either Lord's Day.

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? 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,   $34.55
8. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, 80 
9. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties $113.15
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, How many pupils in all?  
11. Remarks

The questions left blank I can not answer as my Asst. Teacher cannot give the items of her Dept. and positively declines keeping her register so as to give the items called for.
I can give every item so far as it relates to the Dept. I teach.
Night School has been much interrupted by religious meetings of the Colored People

John Dunbar

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