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[Ed. Form, No. 4.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT.
For the Month of May 1867.

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 One
Number of Night-Schools 0
Location, and Name of School Pine Bluff, Ark. Amer. Missonary 
When opened Nov. 14th 1866.
Societies, &c., Patrons Amer. Miss'y. Association
Number of Schools sustained by freedmen |0
Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen |One
Number of teachers transported by Bureau |0
Number of School buildings owned by freedmen |0
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau |One
Whole number of teachers One White One Colored |0
Whole number of pupils enrolled 53 Male 28 Female |25
Number of pupils enrolled last report |50
Number left school this month |2
Number of new scholars this month |5
Average attendance 42.88+
Number of pupils paying tuition 5
Number of White pupils 0
Number always present 14
Number always punctual 33
Number over 16 years of age 2
Number in Alphabet 4
Number who spell and read easy lessons 35
Number of advanced readers 14
Number in geography 6
Number in arithmetic 11
Number in higher branches 0
Number in writing 10
Number on needlework 0
Number free before the war 0
Number of Sabbath Schools One
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 40


To these questions give exact, or approximate answers.

1. How many of the 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? $5.00
8. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month? $20.00
9. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties? $75.00
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, 0 How many pupils in all? 0
11. Remarks

J.O. Lyman

This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number, or cypher.

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-02 19:38:58 Reopened for Editing 2023-11-06 00:12:11 (12:11)AM, Sara M. **Society responsible for this document is the American Missionary Association, established in Arkansas in 1846 by abolitionists who were opening schools for freed slaves. {https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/american-missinoary-association-4781/}