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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of April, 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? Wicomico    
Location (town, county, or district)? Salisbury  
Is it a Day or Night-School? Day    
Of what grade? Ungraded   
When did your present session commence? 22nd April     
When to close? 30th of June   
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? Yes    
What Society? Baltimore Association   
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? Yes  
Who owns the School-building? Trustees of the colored church  
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No   
How much per month?  
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? One    
White? No 
Colored? Yes 
Total enrolment for the month?† Twenty    
Male? 4  
Female? 16 
Number enrolled last report? (dash)  

{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? All   
What is the average attendance? Twenty   

{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? Five  
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.}

Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? Twenty  
Number of White Pupils? None  
Number always present? Twenty  
Number always punctual? Twenty  
Number over 16 years of age? One  
Number in Alphabet? - 
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? Ten 
Number in advanced readers? Ten  
Number in Geography? Three 
Number in Arithmetic? Seven 
Number in higher branches? [[strikethrough]]None[[/strikethrough]]  
Number in Writing? Twenty  
Number in Needle-work? -  
Number free before the war? Sixteen 
Have you a Sabbath-School? No   
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? No   
How many? (dash) 
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? -   
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, Favorable
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society? None    
Name of the Society? -
Remarks. 

(Signed) Josephine Carr
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. I wrote (dash) when dashes were written for unfilled answers; I don't know if this is necessary.