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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of March, 1868.

☞ 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? Union Institute
Of what grade? Intermediate
When did your present session commence? 1st of 10th Mo
When to close? I do not know
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? Yes  
What Society? New York Friends
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? No
Have you had Bureau transportation? No
Who owns the School building? Bureau & Freedmen
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No
How much?   
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 1 
White
Colored
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 69  
Male 
Female 
What number of pupils enrolled last report? 69

{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, must equal the whole number now enrolled.}

What number left school this month? 1
What number new scholars this month? 1

What is the average attendance? 47.
What number of pupils pay tuition? none
What number of white Pupils? none
What number always present? About 23.
What number always punctual? About 20.
What number over sixteen years of age? 1
What number in Alphabet? 7
What number spell, and read easy lessons? 13
What number of advanced readers? 11
What number in Geography? 27
What number in Arithmetic? All in Mental
What number in higher branches? Not any 
What number in writing? All on Slates 30 in books
What number in needlework? 21
What number free before the war? 3 
Have you a Sabbath-School? There is one taught by the Blacks
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School? 2
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? I dont know
Have you an Industrial School? No 
State kind of work done? They sew every Friday a while

☞ 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? 0  
Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 0
2. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? 0   
White, 0
Colored, 0
3. Give name and Post Office address of the Teachers? 0  
4. How many Sabbath Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau? 0
5. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? 0  
White, 0
Colored, 0
6. Whole amount of tuition paid by colored pupils during the month? 0
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month? 0
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? 0
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Oppositions.  
10. Remarks. Our night school does very well.

(Signed) S.A. Cadwallader
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Bladensburg

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

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