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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

For the Month of ........................... , 186 .

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.?...Yes.
What Society?  in part by Freedmen's bid.
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 Freedman?...In part.
Have you had Bureau transportation?...Yes.
Who owns the school building?...Colored people of Island Creek
Is rent paid by Freedman's Bureau?...No
How much?
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?...White One Colored
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?*...0 Male 0 Female
What number of pupils enrolled last report?...15
What number left School this month?...14
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, will equal the whole number now enrolled.}
What number of new scholars this month?...2
What is the average attendance?...31 42/100
What number of pupils pay tuition?...All
What number of white pupils?...0
What number always present?...14
What number always punctual?...15
What number over sixteen years of age?...7
What number in Alphabet?...0
What number spell and read easy lessons?...54
What number of advanced readers?...6
What number in Geography?...0
What number in Arithmetic?...5
What number in higher branches?...0
What number in writing?...0
What number in needlework?...0
What number free before the war?...
Have you a Sabbath School?...Yes
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School?...None is yet.
What number of pupils in Sabbath School?...61
Have you an Industrial School?...No
State kind of work done?

To the following questions five exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter word "about."
1. How many Day or Night Schols within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau?  None.  Number of pupils (estimated) in such schools?
2. How many teachers (estimates) 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? None.
5. How many teachers (estimates) 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? 10.25
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? 20.
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools.  Our school is neither aided nor disturbed by whites.
10. Remarks. by night school is closed and I have opened Sabbath school.

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

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

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