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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of November, 1867.
[[icon of hand pointing right]] To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.
[[icon of hand pointing right]] A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one Assistant, is to be reported as one School.

(Answers placed here.)
Name and location of your School?  Cheney School. Charleston W. Va.
Of what grade?  Not graded.
When did your present session commence? Nov. 1st. When to close? Nov. 27th 1867.
Is your School supported by Ed. Soc.? It is. What Society? F.B. Home Mission Society.
Is your School supported wholly or in part by a local Pub. School Board? It is not.
Is your School supported wholly or in part by Freedmen? It is not.
Have you had Bureau transportation? I have not.
Who owns the School building? Chillis Dixon
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? It is not  How much?
What number of Teachers in your School? One.  White One.  Colored
What number of pupils enrolled during the month 1*  Forty three  Male Twenty three.  Female Twenty.
What number of pupils enrolled last report?  No report before this  
{Numbered enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, will equal the whole number now enrolled.}
What number left School this month? None.
What number of new scholars this month? Forty three.
What is the average attendance? Thirty nine.
What number of pupils pay tuition? No any.
What number of white pupils? None.
What number always present? Twelve.
What number always punctual? Twelve.
What number over sixteen years of age? Three.
What number in Alphabet? No any
What number spell and read easy lessons? Fifteen.
What number of advanced readers? Twenty eight
What number in Geography? Fifteen.
What number in Arithmetic? Twenty.
What number in higher branches? Not any.
What number in writing? Twenty two.
What number in needlework? Not any.
What number free before the war? Twelve.
Have you a Sabbath School? I have not. Sabbath School conducted by the Presbyterian Society.
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School?
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? I do not know.
Have you an Industrial School? No. State kind of work done?
[[Written across page]] Mixed - $50.00 [[/written across page]]

[[icon of hand pointing right]] To the following questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."
1. How many Day or Night Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau? Not any. Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? Not any.
2. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? None. White, None. Colored, None.
3. Give name and Post Office address of the Teachers,
4. How many Sabbath Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau? Not any.
5. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? None. White, None. Colored, None.
6. Whole amount of tuition paid by colored pupils during the month? Nothinig.
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month? Nothing.
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? Nothing.
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Very bitter.
10. Remarks,
*A pupil is not to be reported as enrolled until after five days' attendance.
(Signed) Martha J. Stowers,
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Charleston West Va.