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[Ed. Form, No. 4.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT,
For the Month of       , 186.

☞ A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one School.
☞ To be forwarded as soon as possible after the 1st of each month.

Number of Day-Schools 1  
Number of Night-Schools 0  
Location, and Name of School F.M.S. No ! Pine Bluff Arte  
When opened Dec 3rd 1865 [?] Oct. 8th 1866  
Societies, &c., Patrons G.A. Com on F. Mr. Give a commission without salary   
Number of Schools sustained by freedmen 1  
Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen 0  
Number of teachers transported by Bureau 0    
Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 1   
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau 0    
Whole number of teachers 1   1      
White 1     
Colored 0     
Whole number of pupils enrolled 72 Seventy two     
Male 31     
Female 41     
Number of pupils enrolled last report 65     
Number left school this month 6
Number of new scholars this month 13     
Average attendance 46      
Number of pupils paying tuition 17     
Number of White pupils 0     
Number always present 28     
Number always punctual 26     
Number over 16 years of age 17    
Number in Alphabet 5     
Number who spell and read easy lessons 28     
Number of advanced readers 39      
Number in geography 8     
Number in arithmetic 38     
Number in higher branches 19    
Number in writing 31     
Number on needlework 0 
Number free before the war 0
Number of Sabbath Schools 1
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 80

To these questions give exact, or approximate answers.

1. How many above Schools are graded? 0
How many grades? 0
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? 0    
Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 0   
3. How many Teachers in the above Day or Night Schools? 0     
White, 0    
Colored, 0   
4. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge, and not reported above? 0   
Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 0   
5. How many Teachers in the above Sabbath-Schools? 0   
White, 0   
Colored, 0   
6. How many Industrial Schools? 0    
Whole number of pupils in all? 0    
State the kind of work done, 0   
7. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month, $16.75 
8. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, 00 
9. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties, $39.75 of this sum $16.00 was paid by myself for fuel.      
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, 0
How many pupils in all? 0    
11. Remarks The reason why the number always present and punctual this month is so small is the very cold and bad weather the fore part of the month; had the weather been good the daily average would have been above 60.

T.S. Byers Teacher 
  
☞ This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number, or cypher.
 

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