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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of March, 1869.

☞ 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?    Asbury School
Location (town, county, or district)?  Calvert Co
Is it a Day or Night School?  Day
Of what grade?  Primary
When did your present session commence?   December 1st
When to close?  June 28th
Is your School supported by an Educational Society?   Yes
What Society? American Missionary
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.?   N.Y.A.M.
Am't pd. this month?  
Is your School supported wholly by the Freedmen?   No
Amount paid for this month?  
Is your School supported in part by the Freedmen?   Yes
Amount paid for this month?  Trustees collect the monies. I do not know the amount
Have you had Bureau transportation this term?  Yes
Who owns the School-building?  The col'd people in the name of colored trustees
Is rent paid by the Freedmen's Bureau?   No
How much?  
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?   1 Teacher
White?  
Colored?  Yes
Total enrolment for the month?†   .78.
Male?  .33.
Female?  .45.
Number enrolled last report?   .71.

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

Number left school this month?  .3.
Number new Scholars this month?  .10.
What is the average attendance?  .60.
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid?  About .45.
Number of White Pupils?  Not any
Number always present?  .60.
Number always punctual?  .60.
Number over 16 years of age?  .8.
Number in Alphabet?  .10.
Number who spell, and read easy lessons?  .55.
Number in advanced readers?  13 Use 2nd Reader.
Number in Geography?  Elementary. 25.
Number in Arithmetic?  Primary .25.
Number in higher branches?  Not any
Number in Writing?  On-Slates .35.
Number in Needle-work?  Not any
Number free before the war?  About .5.
Have you a Sabbath-School?  Yes
How many Teachers?   1
How many Pupils?  .45
Have you an Industrial School?   No
Number of Pupils?  0
State the kind of work done?  0

☞ 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?   0
How many? 0
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?   0
No. of Teachers,  0
White,  0
Colored,  0
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent? 0   
How many?  0
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?   0
No. of Teachers,  0
White, 0
Colored,  0
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Not favorable to Col'd Schools
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?   0
Name of the Society?  0
Remarks.  Some time ago, I wrote to the Bureau concerning the whites beating my pupils while on their way home from School. Was my letter received?

(Signed)  M L Hoy
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.