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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of  , 186 .

☞ 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?    The Kimball Pleasant Grove
Location (town, county, or district)?  2 miles from [[mill?]] Rd.
Is it a Day or Night-School?  Day school
Of what grade? Primary
When did your present session commence?   Nov 1st '69
When to close? Jun 30th 1869.
Is your School supported by an Educational Society?   
What Society? 
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?*   
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month? 
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?*   
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month? 
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen?   
Amount paid this month? 
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen?   
Amount paid this month? 
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? 
Who owns the School-building? 
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau?   
How much per month? 
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?   1 Teacher
White? 0
Colored? Yes
Total enrolment for the month?†   31 Pupils
Male?  12
Female? 19
Number enrolled last report?   28 Pupils

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

Number left school this month? 3 Pupils
Number new Scholars this month? 6
What is the average attendance? 29

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

How many hours have you taught per day? 6
How many days have you taught this month? 20
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.}
Last Thursday The 18th and Friday 19th The school was not in session on the account of Thursday being Thanksgiving day and Friday nearly all were so employed that they could not come. More over they [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] live such distance from the schoolhouse as to render it impossible for them to reach it and when they do to be in it 6 hours and 2 hours tonight all the rest of the time exceptions Thursday and Friday. Some parents are grumbling about the time [[?]]

Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? 
Number of White Pupils? 0
Number always present? 20
Number always punctual? 8
Number over 16 years of age? 0
Number in Alphabet? 3
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? 9
Number in advanced readers? 19
Number in (Geography?) no Map  (19) questions[?]
Number in Arithmetic? 19
Number in higher branches? 0
Number in Writing? 19
Number in Needle-work? 0
Number free before the war? 9
Have you a Sabbath-School?   yes
How many Teachers?   4
How many Pupils? 
Have you an Industrial School?   0
How many Teachers?   0
How many 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, Here it is rather bad as has been [[mulstering?]]
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?   0
Name of the Society? 0
Remarks. I desire to have you send if possible some [[?]] of freedmen Our schoolhouse is not [[?]] as yet. Malignant persons have Broken out some window [[suborts?]] and panes of glass

(Signed) James H. Fleet
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:
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