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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, 
For the Month of May 1869

No. of Day Schools                             45
NO. of Night Schools        
No. of Schools sustained by freedmen            0
No. of school buildings owned by Freedmen
No of School Sustained in part by freedmen      30
No. Schools buildings furnished by Bureau       35
No. White teachers                              65
No. Colored teachers                             6
Whole number of teachers                        71
No. Male pupils enrolled                      1776
No. Female pupils enrolled                    2312
Total number of pupils                        4088
No. pupils enrolled last report               5531
No. left school this month                    2063
No. new scholars this month                    620
Average attendance                            2934
No. pupils paying tuition                      555
No. white pupils                                17
NO. always present                            1965
No. always punctual                           1782
No. year 16 years of age                       436
No. in alphabet                                832
No. spell and read easy lessons               1853
No. advanced readers                          1425
No. in Geography                              1221
No. in Arithmetic                             1418
No. in higher branches                         255
No. in Writing                                1355
No. in Needle Work
No. free before the war                         20
No. Sabbath Schools                             32
No. Teachers in Sabbath Schools                129
No. pupils in Sabbath Schools                 2826
   
Day and night schools not reported above        60
No. pupils (estimated) in such schools        6000  
NO. teachers white 55 colored 20
No. Sabbath Schools not reported above           10
No. pupils (estimated) in such schools         2000
No. teachers white 20 colored 10
Industrial Schools 
No. pupils in all 
Amount of tuition paid by the freedmen during the month $187.00  
Amount of expenses for the above schools by the Bureau for the month $383.75
Total expenses per month for the support of the above schools by all parties $ 570.75   
No. places now destitute where schools might be organized 
No. pupils (estimates) who would attend such schools
34 Schools were discontinued last month.

Edwin Beecher
Supt. of Education. 

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