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

☞ To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month. 
☞ 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? Dist. No. 1. School No 8. Corner of 17th & N Sts.
Of what grade? Primary. 
When did your present session commence? Oct. 7 1867  
When to close? June 28th 1868        
Is your school supported by any Ed. Soc.? It is  
What Society? N.Y. Branch F.U. Com.
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? No
Have you had Bureau transportation? No
Who owns the School building? Bureau
Is rent paid by Freedman's Bureau? No   
How much?
What number of Teachers and Assistant in your School? 1  
White 1  
Colored
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 61  
Male 28  
Female, 33
What number of pupils enrolled last report? 58
{Number 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? 5
What number of new scholars this month? 8
What is the average attendance? 59
What number of pupils pay tuition? 0
What number of white pupils? 0
What number always present? 38
What number always punctual? 26
What number over sixteen years of age? 0
What number in Alphabet? 0
What number spell and read easy lessons? 61
What number of advanced readers? 0
What number in Geography? All in general lessons
What number in Arithmetic? All in general lessons
What number in higher branches? 0
What number in writing? 0
What number in needlework? 0
What number free before the war? 21
Have you a Sabbath School? No
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School?
What number of pupils in Sabbath School?
How you an Industrial School? No  
State kind of work done?

☞ To the following questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the words "about."
1. How many Day or Night Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau?   Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?
2. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools?   
White,   
Colored,
3. Give name and Post Office address of the Teachers,
4. How many Sabbath Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau?
5. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools?   
White,   
Colored,
6. Whole amount of tuition paid by colored pupils during the month?
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month? About $5. By N.Y. Com'n. $40
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month?
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,
10. Remarks.

(Signed) Abby S. Simmons
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Washington, D.C.

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

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