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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of October, 1868, Augusta Sub District, State of Georgia

☞ A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one School.
☞ To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.
☞ This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number or cypher.

[[37 columned table]]
|   | No. of Day Schools. | No. of Night Schools. | NAME AND LOCATION OF SCHOOL. | PRESENT SESSION. When opened. | PRESENT SESSION. When to close. | SOCIETIES, &c., PATRONS. | No. Schools sustained by Freedmen. | No. Schools sustained in part by Freedmen. | No. Teachers transported by Bureau. | No. School Buildings owned by Freedmen. | No. School Buildings furnished by Bureau. | TEACHERS. Whole No. | TEACHERS. White. | TEACHERS. Col'd. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. (Both Day and Night Schools) Male. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. (Both Day and Night Schools) Fem'e. | No. Pupils enrolled last Report. | No. left School this Month. | No. New Scholars this Month. | Average Attendance. | No. of Pupils paying Tuition. | No. of White Pupils. | No. always Present. | No. always Punctual. | No. over 16 years of Age. | No. in Alphabet. | No. Spell and Read easy Lessons. | No. advanced Readers. | No. Geography. | No. Arithmetic. | No. Higher Branches. | No. Writing. | No. Needle-work. | No. Free before the War. | No. Sabbath Schools | No. Teachers in Sabbath Schools. | No. Pupils in Sabbath School. |
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|   | 1 | 0. | Bath Richmond Co Georgia | 1868 Sept 12 | 1868. Dec 15 |   | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 14 | 14 | 35 | 3 | 3 | 24 | - | - | 20 | 30 | - | 1 | 11 | - | 5 | 6 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 40. |
|   | 1 | 0 | Select Augusta Ga  | 1868 Oct 6 | 1869 June |  | 1 | - | - | - | - |  1 | - | 13 | 12 | - | - | 25 | 15 | 9 | - | 10 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 40 |
|   | 5 | 0 | Green Morgan, and Taliaferro Co. Ga. |   |   |  | 5 | - | - | 3 | - |  2 | 3 | 139 | 150 | 207 | 20 | 85 | 223 | 19 | - | 140 | 173 | 36 | 34 | 82 | 112 | 62 | 64 | 6 | 105 | - | 3 | 3 | 7 | 110. |
|   | 1 | 0 | Warren Co Georgia  |   |   |  | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 19 | 13 | 32 | 30 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | - | 18 | 4 | - | 7 | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - |
| TOTALS. | 8 | 0 / 8 |   |   |   |   | 7 | 2 | - | 3 | - | 4 | 4 / 8 | 185 | 189 / 370 | 274 | 53 | 113 | 262 | 28 | - | 170 | 203 | 40 | 37 | 118 | 134 | 77 | 87 | 7 | 125 | - | 3 | 5 | 10 | 190 |

☞ To these questions give exact, or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about".

1. How many of above Schools are graded? None 
How many grades? None  
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? None  
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? Two hundred (about)    
No. Teachers in all, 6  
White,  
Colored, 3
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above?     
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? 450 (about)    No. Teachers in all, 36 
White, 5 
Colored, 1
4. How many Industrial Schools? None  
Whole No. pupils in all? None  
State the kind of work done     
5. Whole amount of tuition paid by Freedmen during the month, Eleven dollars  
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month, None 
7. Grand total of expenses per month for support of above schools by all parties for the month, 100.00
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools, None  
How many pupils in all? None  
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Indifferent at best. the whites are not willing to do anything, though often talk differently.
10. Remarks. 
The above report is very incomplete and incorrect. the difficulty of getting intelligible reports from the teachers appear to be perfectly insurmountable. The fact is the teachers are as a rule not the proper kind for such positions

H. Catley 1 Lieut 16th Infty Sub Asst Comr

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