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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? Fairfield School, St. Mary's Co. M.d.   
Of what grade? Primary
When did your present session commence? March 9  
When to close? June 30
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? F.B.  
What Society? Freedmans Bureau
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.  
Have you had Bureau transportation? Yes.
Who owns the School building? The Freedmen.
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? no.
How much? none.  
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? one  
White one
Colored none
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 34.  
Male 16. 
Female 18.

What number of pupils enrolled last report? none.  
{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? none.
What number new scholars this month? 34

What is the average attendance? 25
What number of pupils pay tuition? none 
What number of white Pupils? none
What number always present? 3
What number always punctual? 25
What number over sixteen years of age? 3 
What number in Alphabet? 6
What number spell and read easy lessons? 20.
What number of advanced readers? none.
What number in Geography? none
What number in Arithmetic? none
What number in higher branches? none
What number in Writing? none
What number in needlework? none
What number free before the war? 9
Have you a Sabbath School? No, Expect to start one the 12 of April  
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School? none.
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? none
Have you an Industrial School? no.  
State kind of work done? none

☞ 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? 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? [[strikethrough]] $30.00 [[/strikethrough]] $25.00
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Very Bitter  
10. Remarks. none

(Signed) Frederic A Lawton
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Fairfield School.

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

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