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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of December, 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? Mt. Pleasant
Location (town, county, or district)? Frederick, Co.
Is it a Day or Night-School? Both  
Of what grade? Intermediate
When did your present session commence? November
When to close? June thirteenth
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? Yes   
What Society? N. E. Association. Mass,
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?* No.   
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month? 
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* Yes. 
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month? 
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen? No.
Amount paid this month? 
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? Yes.  
Amount paid this month? 
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? From New Bedford Mass to Baltimore Md.
Who owns the School-building? A. M. E. Society
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No.
How much per month? 
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?  One 
White? 
Colored? Colored.
Total enrolment for the month?† Fifty one
Male? 33.
Female? 18.
Number enrolled last report? Thirty three

{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, must equal the present total enrolment.}
Number left school this month? None.
Number new Scholars this month? Eighteen
What is the average attendance? Fifty five

{Schools are to be kept five days per week and six hours each day.}
How many hours have you taught per day? Six
How many days have you taught this month? 
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching. No Deficiency in Teaching}

Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? 
Number of White Pupils? None.
Number always present? Forty
Number always punctual? Forty.
Number over 16 years of age? Six.
Number in Alphabet? None.
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? Fifteen
Number in advanced readers? twenty
Number in Geography? twenty
Number in Arithmetic? twenty
Number in higher branches? Twenty five
Number in Writing? Thirty
Number in Needle-work? None
Number free before the war? All.
Have you a Sabbath-School?  Yes. 
How many Teachers?   
How many Pupils? 
Have you an Industrial School?  No 
How many Teachers?   
How many Pupils? 
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? 
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? 
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?   
No. of Teachers, 
White, 
Colored, 
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, No objections in my knowledge.
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?  None 
Name of the Society? 
Remarks. 

(Signed) Paulina H Vanderhoop
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.

Transcription Notes:
Please fill in answers. Per SI staff, these reports are not to be transcribed as tables. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-31 08:49:59