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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of May, 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? Emmanual  Location (town, county, or district)? Rock Dale District.
Is it a Day or Night-School?  Of what grade?  Intermediate
When did your present session commence?  When to close?  July 2nd, for one week only.
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? 
What Society? None.
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?*  No  Name of Board or Com.?  None  Am't pd. this month? -
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?*  No. Name of Board or Com.?  None  Am't pd. this month? -
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen?  Yes 
Amount paid this month?  Two dollars.
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? -
Amount paid this month? - 
Have you had Bureau Transportation this term?  No
Who owns the School-building?  It belongs to an unsettled estate of white people.
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau?  No. How much per month?  By the teacher, 50¢ per month.
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?  None  White? - Colored? -
Total enrolment for the month?†  8  Male?  4  Female?  4
Number enrolled last report?  13
Number left school this month?  3
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, must equal the present total enrolment.}
Number new Scholars this month?  2
What is the average attendance?  4
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid?  4
{Schools are to be kept five days per week and six hours each day.}
Number of White Pupils?  None  How many hours have you taught per day?  2
Number always present?  2  How many days have you taught this month?  21
Number always punctual?  2
Number over 16 years of age?  2 
Number in Alphabet?  1
Number who spell, and read easy lessons?  6
Number in advanced Readers?  1
Number in Geography?  None
Number in Arithmetic?  None
Number in higher branches?  None
Number in Writing?  1
Number in Needle-work?  None
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.  Two hours per day has been ample for the recitations of pupils in attendance.}
Number free before the war?  None
Have you a Sabbath-School?  Yes  How many Teachers?  4  How many Pupils?  100
Have you an Industrial School? No  How many Teachers? None  
How many Pupils?  None
State the kind of work done?  None

☞ 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? - 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,  It is evident a few favor, and, many oppose the school.
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?  None. Name of the Society? -
Remarks.  Poverty, engagements in the crops & opposition to the school are prominent cause of it is meager size. This blank was rec'd June 5th, 1869.

(Signed)  Rev. James Fitz Allan Sisson.  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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