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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of May, 1869
[[graphic of finger point to the right]] To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month. 
[[graphic of finger point to the right]] 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? No. 11. Laurel. Sussex Co.
Of what grade? Secondary
When did your present session commence? Oct. 68. When to close? June. 
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? In part What Society? Delaware Association
Is your School supported wholly or in part by a local Pub. School Board? No. 
Is you School supported wholly or in part by Freedmen? No. 
Have you had Bureau transportation? No.
Who owns the School Building? Freedmen's Bureau.
Is rent paid by Freedman's Bureau? No. How much? _____
What number of Teachers and Assistants in you School? 1 White _____ Colored _____
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 20 Male _____ Female 12.
What number of pupils enrolled last report? 36 

{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? 6
What number of new scholars this month? 2
What is the average attendance? 27.
What number of pupils pay tuition? 32.
What number of white pupils? __
What number always present? 27
What number always punctual? 27.
What number over sixteen years of age? 4
What number in Alphabet?[[strikethrough]]1[[/strikethrough]]4
What number spell and ready easy lessons? 15
What number of advanced readers? 12
What number in Geography? 12
What number in Arithmetic? 20.
What number in higher branches? 3
What number in writing? 12.
What number in needlework? 14
What number free before the war? 32
Have you a Sabbath School? Yes
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School? 8
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? 38
Have you an Industrial School? _____ State kind of work done? _____

[[graphic of finger point to the right]] 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, _____
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. _____
* A pupil is not to be report as enrolled until after five days' attendance.
(Signed) Mary J. Douglass
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Laurel.

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