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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? River View, Oxen Run, P.G. Co. Md.
Of what grade? Primary.
When did your present session commence? July 7th 1868    
When to close? December 24th. 1868 
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? It is not.    
What Society?  
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? I have. 
Who owns the School building? A board of trustees.  
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? It is not. 
How much?  
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 1 Teacher. 
White   
Colored Colored.
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 51 day scholars, 19 night Total 70    
Male 41
Female 29
What number of pupils enrolled last report? 47 day scholars 14 Night total 61

{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? 1
What number of new scholars this month? 5 
What is the average attendance? 31 23/44 
What number of pupils pay tuition? None
What number of white pupils? None 
What number always present? There are 2 who have not been absent in day school school & 4 in the night total 6.
What number always punctual? 17
What number over sixteen years of age? 3 in day school 13 in night total 16 
What number in Alphabet? 8 
What number spell and read easy lessons? 20
What number of advanced readers? 10
What number in Geography? 11 
What number in Arithmetic? 14 
What number in higher branches? None.
What number in writing? 12 
What number in needlework? None. 
What number free before the war? 10 
Have you a Sabbath School? 
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School?
What number of pupils in Sabbath School?  
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?   
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, Silver Hill P. Office PG CO. Md. Care of Mr. Grimes. 
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?  
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? 
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  
10. Remarks.  

(Signed)  Ellen Louisa Fisher
Teacher of Freedmen's School at P.G. Co. Md.

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

Transcription Notes:
Please fill in answers. Per SI staff, these reports are not to be transcribed as tables. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-24 10:21:53