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Teacher's Monthly School Report
For the Month of , 1867.
[[hand pointing right]] To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.
[[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.

Name and location of your School? (Answers placed here.) Muirkirk Prince Geo. Co. Maryland
Of what grade? Not graded
When did your present session commence? Oct 8th, 1867 When to close? June 30th, 1868
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? In part. What Society? New England
Is your School supported wholly or in part by a local Pub. School Board? No.
Is your School supported wholly or in part by Freedmen? In part by C.E. Coffin
Have you had Bureau transportation? Yes
Who owns the School building? Mr. Wm. E. Coffin of Boston
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? How much? No rent paid.
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 1 White 1 Colored -.
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 28 Male 12 Female 16
What number of pupils enrolled last report?  34 {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? 6
What number of new scholars this month? -
What is the average attendance? 18
What number of pupils pay tuition? - 
What number of white pupils? 15
What number always present? 3
What number always punctual? -
What number over sixteen years of age? 1
What number in Alphabet? 2
What number spell and read easy lessons? 20
What number of advanced readers? 6
What number in Geography? 10
What number in Arithmetic? 13
What number in higher branches? 5
What number in writing? 10
What number in needlework? -
What number free before the war? -
Have you a Sabbath School? One in Schoolhouse,  G.H. Carcombe, Supt.
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School? 6 (white)
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? 30 (white    colored)
Have you an Industrial School? No State kind of work done? -

[[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 report 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, A. Brissell Gibson, Oakville.
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 for the month?
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month?
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,
10. Remarks. The severity of the weather during [[strikethrough]] during [[/strikethrough]] the month has kept some of the pupils at home who properly belong to the school, but are not reported as scholars.
*A pupil is not to be reported as enrolled  until after five days' attendance.
(Signed)
P.P. Whitehouse
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Muirkirk Md.