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STATE SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL-REPORT.
To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of December, 1868   District, State of Alabama

☞ 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.

☞ This has reference to the present season

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

☞ 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. | LOCATION, AND NAME OF SCHOOL. Sub District 6 | When opened. | SOCIETIES, &C., PATRONS. [[image The National Archives of the United States ]] | 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. Colored. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. (BOTH DAY AND NIGHT SCHOOLS.) Male. |NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. (BOTH DAY AND NIGHT SCHOOLS.) Female, | 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-School Teachers. | No. pupils in Sabbath-Schools. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 |   | Huntsville |   |   |   | 1 | 3 |   | 1 | 3 | 3 |   | 45 | 65 | 110 |   |   | 100 | 40|   | 80| 91 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 80 | 40 | 60 | 24 | 60 |   | 1 | 3 | 150 |
| 5 |   | Talladega |   |   | 2 | 1 |   | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 165 |188 | 284| 27 | 96 | 222| 23 |   | 209 | 211 | 90 | 16  | 160 | 105 | 12 | 71 |   | 186 |   | 10 | 15 | -421 |
| 3 |   | Demopolis |   |   |   | 3 |   |   | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1| 86 |58 | 151 | 13 | 6 | 105| 144 |   | 103 | 97 | 18 |    | 78 | 57 | 57 | 42 | 3 | 60 |   | 1 | 16 | -290 |
| 4 |   | Selma |   |   |   |   |   |   | 3 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 330 | 431 | 568 |   | 393 | 600 | 105 |   | 600 | 600 | 156 | 340 | 450 | 320 | 320 | 344 | 120 | 492 |   | 2 | 5 | -400 |
| 6 |   | Montgomery |   |   |   | 6 | 2 |   | 6 | 6 | 6 |   | 301 | 280 | 655 | 74 |   | 479 |   |   | 338 | 211 | 137 | 80 | 221 | 317 | 259 | 294 | 5 | 245 |   | 8 |   |  - |
| 1 |   | Greenville |   |   |   | 1 |   |   | 1 | 2 | 2 |   | 9 | 20 | 29 |   |   | 26 | 22 |   | 11 | 18 | 3 |   | 5 | 24 | 2| 9 | 2 | 13 |   |   |   | - |
| 2 |   | Mobile |   |   | 1 |   |   |   | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 249 | 290 | 565 | 74 | 48 | 387 | 40 |   | 133 | 119 | 12 | 168 | 81 | 292 | 213 | 253 | 20 | 134 |   | 27 | 45 | -650 |
| 6 |   | Opelika |   |   |   |   |   |   | 6 | 8 | 8 |   | [[?]] |219 | 215 | 1 | 211 | 345| 8 |   | 335 | 303 | 58 | 46 | 210 | 89 | 40 | 42 |  3 | 69 |   | 3 | 13 | 215 | 
| 5 | 1 | Eufaula |   |   |   | 6 | 1 |   | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 223 | 165 | 386 | 30 | 32 | 338 | 312 |   | 337 | 379 | 75 | 78 | 178 | 131 | 106 | 201 |   | 193 |   | 6 | 22 | 563 |
TOTALS.
| 33 | 3 | 34 |   |   |   | 3 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 61 | 49 | 12 | 1614 |1716 | 3337 | 2968 | 229 | 786 | 2682 | 694 |   | 2144 | 1987 | 679 | 738 | 1403 | 1314 | 1043 | 1318 | 177 | 1444 |   | 58 | 119 | 2689 |

☞ To these questions give exact, or appropriate answers. 

1. How many of the above Schools are graded?  How many grades? 
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  No. Teachers in all,  White,  Colored, 
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  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 Freemen during the month, $300.00
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month, $384.50
7. Grand total of expenses per month for support of above schools by all parties, $684.50
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  How many pupils in all? 
9. Remarks. 

Edwin Beecher
Supt Education State of Ala Bu RF & AL.

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