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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? Worton Point Colored Sch
Location (town, county, or district)? Kent Co.  
Is it a Day or Night-School? Both
Of what grade? f the Primary Department.
When did your present session commence? Oct 1st
When to close? Probably the last of June.
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? No.   
What Society? None.
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?* No.
Name of Board or Com.? None
Am't pd. this month? 0.
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* Yes
Name of Board or Com.?  Baltimore Association
Am't pd. this month? $20
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen? No. 
Amount paid this month? None
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? Yes 
Amount paid this month? &9.75 board from Oct 1st to Dec 30th
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? Yes.
Who owns the School-building? The Colored people of Worton Point.
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No. 
How much per month? None.
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?  1. 
White? No.
Colored? Yes.
Total enrolment for the month?† 23.
Male? 14.
Female? 9.

Number enrolled last report? 31. 
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, must equal the present total enrolment.}
Number left school this month? Some absent not left
Number new Scholars this month? None.

{Schools are to be kept five days per week and six hours each day.}
How many hours have you taught per day? 6½.
How many days have you taught this month? 17.
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching. No School one day this month on account of the storm. The people claim the time from Christmas eve to New Years as a holiday reason, in these Counties, so the schools do not keep this last week in Dec.}

What is the average attendance? 14.
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? All.
Number of White Pupils? None.
Number always present? 11.
Number always punctual? 8.
Number over 16 years of age? 7.
Number in Alphabet? 4.
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? 12.
Number in advanced readers? 7.
Number in Geography? 3.
Number in Arithmetic? 13.
Number in higher branches? Grammar
Number in Writing? 10.
Number in Needle-work? None.
Number free before the war? 19.
Have you a Sabbath-School? Yes.
How many Teachers? 1.
How many Pupils? 12.
Have you an Industrial School? No.
How many Teachers? None.
How many Pupils? None.
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? None
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?  None 
No. of Teachers, None 
White, None 
Colored, None 
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent? No.  
How many? None 
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?  Cannot
No. of Teachers, None 
White, None 
Colored, None 
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, There is no interruption from the public
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?   None 
Name of the Society? None 
Remarks. We have been without sufficient fuel this month and some could not come.

(Signed) Josephine Booth.
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. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-06-21 08:04:38