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

Report
OF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION,
BUREAU R.,F. & A.L., STATE OF ALABAMA,
the month of April 1869

No. of Day Schools....................................79
No. of Night schools...................................1
No. of Schools sustained by freedmen....................
No. of School buildings owned by Freedmen..............2
No. of School sustained in part by freedmen...........55
No. of Schools buildings furnished by bureau..........66
No. White teachers....................................85
No. Colored teachers..................................23
Whole number of teachers.............................108
No. Male pupils enrolled............................2406
No. Female pupils enrolled..........................3125
Total numbers of pupils.............................5531
No. pupils enrolled last report.....................4844
No. left school this month...........................007
No. new scholars this month..........................687
Average attendance..................................4357
No. pupils paying tuition............................449
No. white pupils.....................................100
No. always present..................................1768
No. always punctual.................................2276
No. over 16 years of age.............................728
No. in alphabet.....................................2048
No. spell and read easy lessons.....................2707
No. advanced readers................................1628
No. in Geography....................................1522
No. in Arithmetic...................................2616
No. in higher branches...............................554
No. in Writing......................................1470
No. in Needle Work....................................10
No. free before the war...............................49
No. Sabbath Schools...................................39
No. Teachers in Sabbath Schools......................214
No. pupils in Sabbath Schools.......................2933

Day and night schools not reported above..............19
No. pupils(estimated) in such schools...............2000
No. teachers white....1....colored....20................
No. Sabbath Schools not reported above..................
No. Pupils(estimated)in such schools....................
No. teachers white.........colored......................
Industrial schools......................................
No. pupils in all.......................................
Amount of tuition paid by the freedmen during the month.....$234.50
Amount of expenses for the above schools by the Bureau of the month......................................846.50
Amount of expenses for the support of the above schools by all parties...................................1081.00
No. places now destitute where schools might be organized.........
No. pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools......

Edwin Beecher
Supt. of Education

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