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[Ed. Form, No 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of December, 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? Pomonkey
Location (town, county, or district)? Charles Co
Is it a Day or Night School? Day
Of what grade? Intermediate
When did your present session commence? Oct 25th
When to close? July 1st 1870
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? In part 
What Society? American Union Commission
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? Four dollars & Eighty seven cents
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? 
Who owns the School-building? Colored people
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau?  
How much per month?
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 
White?
Colored? 
Total enrolment for the month?† Twenty four
Male? fourteen
Female? ten

Number enrolled last report? Twenty seven
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left in school, must equal the present total enrolment.}
Number left school this month? four
Number new Scholars this month? one

{Schools are to be kept five days per week and six hours each day.}
How many hours have you taught per day? five 
How many days have you taught this month? Eighteen
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.
I can't teach any longer than five hours as my pupils are so late in getting there.}

What is the average attendance? sixteen
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid?
Number of White Pupils? 
Number always present? four
Number always punctual? four
Number over 16 years of age? five
Number in Alphabet? 
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? five
Number in advanced readers? Eighteen
Number in Geography? seven
Number in Arithmetic? Nineteen
Number in higher branches? five
Number in Writing? Nineteen
Number in Needle-work? 
Number free before the war? Fourteen
Have you a Sabbath-School? 
How many Teachers? 
How many Pupils? 
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) Joseph W. Allen
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.

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