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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
for the Month of November, 1867.

To contain one entire calendar month, said to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.
A School under the district control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one Assistant, is to be reported as one School.

Name and Location of your School? (Answers placed here.) Tinkersville, Malden, West Va.
Of what grade? Primary.
When did your present session commence? When to Close?
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? No. What Society?
Is your School supported wholly or in part by a local Pub. School Board? In part
Is your school supported wholly or in part by Freedmen? In part
Have you had Bureau transportation? 
Who owns the School building? Freedmen.
Is rent paid by Freedman's Bureau? No. How much?
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? One. White Colored- One
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 29 Male 17 Female 12
What number of pupils enrolled last report?  {Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, will equal the number now enrolled.}
What number left School this month? None
What number of new scholars this month? 1
What is the average attendance? about 25
What number of pupils pay tuition? none
What number of white pupils? none
What number always present? about 25
What number always punctual? about 20
What number over sixteen years of age? none
What number in Alphabet? 3
What number spell and read every lesson? Sixteen
What number of advanced readers? Ten
What number in Geography? [[strikethrough]] Five [[/strikethrough]] Six
What number in Arithmetic? Five
What number in higher branches? none
What number in writing? Ten
What number in needlework? none
What number free before the war? none
Have you a Sabbath School? Yes sir
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School?
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? about 40
Have you an Industrial School? No State kind of work done?

To the following questions give exact or appropriate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."
1. How many Day or Night Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau? None Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?
2. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? None White, none Colored, none
3. Give name and Post Office address of the Teachers, [[strikethrough]] William Davis Malden Kanawha Co West Virginia [[/strikethrough]]
4. How many Sabbath Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau?  [[strikethrough]] one at Tinkersville. [[/strikethrough]]
5. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? five White, none Colored, 5
6. Whole amount of tuition paid by colored pupils during the month? None
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month? $40.00
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? Nothing
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, General apathy prevails, where there is not decided prejudice and opposition.

*A pupil is not to be reported as enrolled until after five days' attendance. 

(Signed) Wm Davis Colored
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Tinkersville Ka Co. W. Va

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