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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of February, 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? Lincoln
Of what grade? Grammar & Primary
When did your present session commence? Oct. 7, 1867
When to close? June 1868
Is your school supported by any Ed. Soc.?  It is
What Society? New England B Fr. A. C.
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? In part Freedmen pay and board ac of Teachers
Have you had Bureau transportation? We had.
Who owns the School building? African M.C.
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? It is not.
How much?
What numbers of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 2
White 2
Colored
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 127
Male 
Female
Number enrolled last report? 
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, will equal the whole number now enrolled.}
What number of pupils enrolled last report? 133
What number left School this month? 15
what number of new scholars this month? 12
what is the average attendance? 15
What number of pupils pay tuition? Nearly all.
What number of what pupils? 1
What number always present? 71
What number always punctual? 68
What number over sixteen years of age? 27
What number in Alphabet? 2
What number spell and read easy lessons? 68
What number of advanced readers? 40
What number in Geography? 14
What number in Arithmetic? 67
What number in higher branches? 8 in Grammar
What number in writing? 77
What number in needlework?  2
What number free before the war? 1/4 Estimated
Have you a Sabbath School?  Yes
What number of teachers in Sabbath School? 11
what number of pupils in Sabbath School? 95
Have you an Industrial School? Yes
State kind of work done? Knitting and sewing

☞ 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?   
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? 1
5. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? 9  
White, 1
Colored, 8
6. Whole amount of tuition paid by colored pupils during the month? $20.00
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month? about 0
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? 0
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Good School is not so regular in attendence as in Jany more Sickness and many Families unable to send on account of insufficient clothing for their children and being out of work unable to contribute to sustain the Schools.
10. Remarks.

(Signed) J.S. Littlefield
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Hagerstown Wash Co Md

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