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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of October, 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? Broad Creek Neck, Public colr'd school.
Of what grade? Primary & Intermediate Grade.  
When did your present session commence?  October 1868 
When to close?  July 1869.
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? It is.   
What Society? Baltimore Association.
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? It is in part.   
Have you had Bureau transportation? I have. 
Who owns the School building? The school is held in the A.M.E Colored {{chorde?}}
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? It is not.  
How much? 0
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 1 Teacher  
White 0.  
Colored 1. 
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 18  
Male 5   
Female 13. 
What number of pupils enrolled last report? 39.  

{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? 0 
What number of new scholars this month? 18.
What is the average attendance? 14
What number of pupils pay tuition? The parents pay monthly
What number of white pupils? 0.
What number always present? 10. 
What number always punctual? 7.
What number over sixteen years of age? 0. 
What number in Alphabet? 1.
What number spell and read easy lessons? 4
What number of advanced readers? 13.
What number in Geography? 3
What number in Arithmetic? 8
What number in higher branches? 1  
What number in writing? 7 
What number in needlework? 12  
What number free before the war? 13 
Have you a Sabbath School? We have
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School? 2.
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? 15 
Have you an Industrial School? yes  
State kind of work done? Needlework, knitting ec.

☞ 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? 0   
Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?  
2. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools?   
White,  
Colored,0
3. Give name and Post Office address of the Teachers,  
4. How many Sabbath Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau? 0 
5. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools?   
White,  
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?  None
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month?  0
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Public sentiment continues favorable.
10. Remarks. The people seem interested in the school; and willing to do all they can to sustain it.

(Signed)  
Respectfully, Alice M. Smith
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Broad Creek Neck, Md

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

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Please fill in answers. Per SI staff, these reports are not to be transcribed as tables. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-20 11:25:19 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-20 16:17:26