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


Name of your School?  Peterson  
Location (town, county, or district)? Dutch Neck
Is it a Day or Night-School? Day 
Of what grade? _____
When did your present session commence? Sept. '68   
When to close? June 1869
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? In part 
What Society? Del. Educational Assocn.
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?* No   
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? Sixteen dolls.
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? No
Who owns the School-building? Peterson
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No 
How much per month?
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? One   
White? --
Colored? Yes
Total enrolment for the month?† 25   
Male? fifteen 
Female? ten
Number enrolled last report? twenty-four 

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

Number left school this month? two
Number new Scholars this month? three
What is the average attendance? nineteen

{Schools are to be kept five days per week and six hours each day.}

Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? twenty-five
Number of White Pupils? 
How many hours have you taught per day? five
Number always present? sixteen
How many days have you taught this month? twenty-one
Number always punctual? sixteen
Number over 16 years of age? 
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.}
Number in Alphabet? seven
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? eleven
Number in advanced readers? seven
Number in Geography? one
Number in Arithmetic? three
Number in higher branches? 
Number in Writing? eighteen
Number in Needle-work? 
Number free before the war? twenty 
Have you a Sabbath-School?   Yes
How many Teachers? Four
How many Pupils? thirty-six 
Have you an Industrial School? 
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? 
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? no   
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, unfavorable
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?  
Name of the Society? 
Remarks. 

(Signed) Jane S. Allen
Teacher.

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* Or School Committee, either District, Town, City, County, or State?
† A pupil is not to be REPORTED as enrolled until after five days' attendance.

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