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State Superintendents Monthly School Report,
To Bureau R.F. & A.L, for the month of October, 1868,  District, State of Alabama

[[image]] A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one School.
[[image]] To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

[[image]] This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number or cypher.

[[36 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. 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. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
Sub Dist Huntsville  School not in Session
| 11 | 7 | Sub Dist Talladega |   |   | Freedmen & Bureau | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 146 | 88 | 94 | 18 | 158 | 180 | 89 |   | 136 | 117 | 99 | 5 | 114 | 66 | 10 | 114 |   | 134 |   | 8 | 3 | 17 | 294 | 
| 2 |   | Sub Dist Demopolis |   |   | Freedmen & Bureau | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 |   | 51 | 47 |   |   | 98 | 92 | 98 |   | 88 | 85 | 32 | 9 | 89 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 2 | 3[[?]] |   |   | 2 | 14 | 190 | 
| 1 |   | Sub Dist Selma |   |   | Bureau & A.M.A. | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |   | 60 | 66 | 84 | 2 | 44 | 110 | 40 |   | 75 | 90 | 28 | 2 | 40 | 84 | 24 | 124 | 70 | 124 |   | 10 | 1 | 3 | 200 | 
| 6 |   | Sub Dist Montgomery |   |   | Bureau & Freedmen | - | 3 | 2 | - | 5 | 5 | 2 | 209. | 226 | 287 | 128 | 276 | 326 | 31 |   | 298 | 199 | 69 | 35 | 121 | 204 | 195 | 279 | 4 | 211 |   | 7 | 2 | 8 | 107 | 
| 2 | 1 | Sub Dist Greenville |   |   | Bureau & Freedmen | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 |   | 28 | 37 | 42 | 10 | 33 | 23 | 56 | - | 30 | 35 | 7 | 2 | 35 | 28 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 17 | - | 0 | 1 |   | 60 | 
| 3 |   | Sub Dist Mobile |   |   | Bureau & Freedmen | 1 | - | 6 | - | 2 | 6 | 1 | 194 | 237 | - | - | 431 | 367 | 25 | - | 311 | 289 | 6 | 65 | 164 | 217 | 176 | 212 | 2 | 51 | - | 6 | 1 | 40 | 600 | 
| 4 |   | Sub Dist Opelika |   |   | Bureau & Freedmen | - | 4 | - | - | 4 | 8 | - | 108 | 100 | 63 | 7 | 152 | 167 | 58 | - | 137 | 143 | 22 | 43 | 84 | 52 | 17 | 16 | - | 23 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 100 | 
| 5 | 1 | Sub dist Eufaula |   |   | Bureau & A.M.A | - | 6 | - | - | 5 | 4 | 2 | 195 | 168 | 277 | 22 | 108 | 305 | 283 |   | 295 | 286 | 55 | 123 | 140 | 100 | 55 | 154 | 5 | 136 |   |   | 6 | 22 | 552 |
Totals.
| 27 | 4 31 |   |   |   |   | 8 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 36 | 7 43 | 991 | 969 1960 | 747 | 387 | 1300 | 1590 | 710 | - | 1390 | 254 | 318 | 284 | 787 | 777 | 503 | 935 | 75 | 730 | - | 25 | 17 | 109 | 2103 | 

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

1.  How many of above Schools are graded?  4
How many grades?   3
2.  How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  1
Whole No. of Pupils (estimated) in all such Schools,   40 
No. Teachers in all,  2
White,  
Colored,  2 
3.  How many Sabbath Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  2
Whole No. of Pupils (estimated) in all such Schools,  2900
No. Teachers in all, 
White,  
Colored,
4.  How many Industrial Schools?
Whole No. Pupils in all,
State the kind of work done,
5.  Whole amount of Tuition paid by Freedmen during the month,  $528.75
6.  Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,   $263.00
7.  Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  $791.75
8.  Whole No. of High or Normal Schools,
How many Pupils in all?
9.  State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,
10.  Remarks.

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