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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
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 of your School?   Cheney School 
Location (town, county, or district)?  Charlestown W.Va.
Is it a Day or Night School?  Both
Of what grade? Mixed - Primary/Intermediate
When did your present session commence?  March 2d
When to close? Probably in June.
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? Is not   
What Society? No one
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?*  It is 
Name of Board or Com.?   Commissioners
Am't pd. this month? 40.00
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?*   _____
Name of Board or Com.?  _____ 
Am't pd. this month? _____
Is your School supported wholly by the Freedmen? Is not  
Amount paid this month? _____
Is your School supported in part by the Freedmen? It is   
Amount paid for this month? Three dollars. (See note)
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? I have
Who owns the School-building? Mrs. Dixon (Colored.)
Is rent paid by the Freedmen's Bureau?  Is not
How much? Six dollars per. month. Pd. by Commissioners
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?   One
White? One
Colored? None
Total enrolment for the month?†  One hundred
Male?  Fifty-eight
Female? Forty-two
Number enrolled last report?  Do not know 

{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, will equal the present total enrolment.}

Number left school this month? Fourteen
Number new Scholars this month? Seventy-eight in day. Twenty-two in night school.

What is the average attendance? Sixty-two in day. Fifteen in night school.
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? None.
Number of White Pupils? None.
Number always present? Nine.
Number always punctual? Forty.
Number over 16 years of age? Forty-three.
Number in Alphabet? Twelve.
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? Fifty.
Number in advanced readers? Forty-two.
Number in Geography? Sixteen.
Number in Arithmetic? Twenty-six.
Number in higher branches? One.
Number in Writing? Thirty.
Number in Needle-work? None.
Number free before the war? Eighteen.
Have you a Sabbath-School?   Yes.
How many Teachers?   Four.
How many Pupils? Fifty.
Have you an Industrial School?  No.
Number of Pupils? None
State the kind of work done? 

☞ To the following questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."
1. Do you know of any Schools for Refugees or Freedmen not reported to the State Superintendent? Do not    
How many? None
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?  _____ 
No. of Teachers, _____
White, _____
Colored, _____
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent?  Do not
How many? None.
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools? _____
No. of Teachers, _____
White, _____
Colored, _____
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Such that no teachers of colored people can get board with white people.
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?  None
Name of the Society? _____
Remarks. There has been no school here for some time. This being my first month, I have no means of giving number in last report.

(Signed) E.J. Whitten
Teacher.

* Or School Committee, either District, Town, City, County, or State?
† A pupil is not to be REPORTED as enrolled until after five days' attendance.

(Note). This school is supported by taxation, the same as the free white schools of W. Va. The Colored people paying their proportion of the tax, assist in support of the school, though I receive from them only a small tax for night-school only. the day school being supported entirely by the Commissioners - E.J.W.