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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]] No 169 Beale St. [[/strikethrough]] Memphis Tenn.
When opened Jan 8th 1867  
Societies &c., Patrons 1st [[strikethrough]] colored church of Memphis & congregation [[/strikethrough]] Private
Number of Schools sustained by freedmen 2
Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen 0
Number of teachers transported by Bureau 0
Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 1  
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau 0
Whole number of teachers 1 White 2 Colored 3 total
Whole number of pupils enrolled in day school 70 Male 77 Female 147 
Number of pupils enrolled last report 0 
Number left school this month 0 
Number of new scholars this month 147  
Average attendance 64 males 52 females 116  
Number of pupils paying tuition 114 
Number of White pupils 10
Number always present   
Number always punctual   
Number over 16 years of age 10
Number in Alphabet 15
Number who spell and read easy lessons 40
Number of advanced readers 92
Number in geography 32
Number in arithmetic 42
Number in higher branches 8 
Number in writing 20
Number on needlework 0
Number free before the war (?) 3 or 4, have made no enquiry  
Number of Sabbath Schools 1 morning 8 evening
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 250 

To these questions give exact, or approximate answers. 
1. How many of above Schools are graded? How many grades? 3 as nearly as possible.
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?  
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? 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, day school 114$ night school $90 = 234$
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 175 
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, How many pupils in all?  
11. Remarks The night school in the same building as the day school and conducted by the same teacher has an enrollment of 112 scholars with an average attendance of about 65.

S.G. Silliman

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