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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? Colfax Literary & Domestic School Cor. 17 and I streets Wash D.C.
Of what grade? Grammar 
When did your present session commence? Sep. 30. 1867 
When to close? June 30th 1868 
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? 
It is not. What Society? 
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? The music pupils pay a very small amt. 
Have you had Bureau transportation? Not this year 
Who owns the School building? The Government 
Is rent paid by Freedman's Bureau? Do not know How much? 
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? Two 
White 2 
[[strikethrough]] Colored [[/strikethrough]] 
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* Thirty five 
Male 
Female 35 
What number of pupils enrolled laat report? Thirty three sickness
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, will equal the whole number now enrolled.} 1 expulsion 
What number left School this month? Nine 
What number of new scholars this month? Two
What is the average attendance? Twenty two 
What number of pupils pay tuition? None 
What number of white pupils? None 
What number always present? Eight 
What number always punctual? Eight 
What number over sixteen years of age? None 
What number in Alphabet? None
What number spell and read easy lessons? All 
What number of advanced readers? Twenty Nine 
What number in Geography? Twenty Nine 
What number in Arithmetic? Twenty Nine 
What number in higher branches? Twenty
What number in writing? Twenty Nine 
What number in needlework? Twenty Nine 
What number free before the war? Twenty 
Have you a Sabbath School? I have 
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School? Two 
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? Twenty five 
Have you an Industrial School? I have State kind of work done? All kinds garments made 

☞ 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?
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? [[strikethrough]] Fifty dollars [[/strikethrough]] $60, about.
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? Do not know
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,
10. Remarks. Several pupils who have been quite sick, will return first of the month.

(Signed) Mrs. L. M. E. Ricks
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Cor. 17 & I sts Wash D.C.

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

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