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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? Island Creek School, Island Creek, Calvert Co. Md.
Of what grade? Intermediate
When did your present session commence? Jan. 27, 1868. 
When to close? July 1, 1868.
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? In part  
What Society? by Freedmen's Bureau.
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  
Have you had Bureau transportation? Yes
Who owns the School building? Colored men of Island Creek
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No  
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?   
White? 
Colored? One
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 12 
Male? 3
Female? 9

What number of pupils enrolled last report?   
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, must equal the whole number now enrolled.} 47
What number left school this month? 10
What number new scholars this month? 16

What is the average attendance? 50
What number of pupils pay tuition? 76
What number of white Pupils? None
What number always present? 49
What number always punctual? 47
What number over 16 years of age? 14
What number in Alphabet? 3
What number who spell, and read easy lessons? 40
What number of advanced readers? 10
What number in Geography? None
What number in Arithmetic? 5
What number in higher branches? None
What number in Writing? None
What number in needlework? None
What number free before the war? 
Have you a Sabbath-School? No  
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School? None
What number of Pupils in Sabbath School? None
Have you an Industrial School?   
State kind of work done? 

☞ 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?  None 
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? 19.00
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month?
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? 20.00
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, While our school is not disturbed by the whites it is not aided by them.  
10. Remarks.

(Signed) Horace F. Owens
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Island Creek Calvert Co. Md.

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

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