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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 September 1869

No. of Day Schools                                      19
No. of Night Schools
No. Schools sustained by freedmen                        2
No. of School buildings owned by Freedmen
No. of School sustained in part by freedmen              6
No. schools building furnished by Bureau                17
No. White teachers                                      17
No. Colored teachers                                     3 
Whole number of teachers                                 20 
No. Male pupils enrolled                                398 
No. Female pupils enrolled                              511
Total number of pupils                                  909
No. pupils enrolled last report                        1417  
No. left school this month                              508
No. new scholars this month
Average attendance                                      684
No. pupils paying tuition                               384
No. white pupils
No. always present                                      513
No. always punctual                                     530 
No. over 16 years of age                                 93
No. in alphabet                                          17    
NO. spell and read easy lessons                         578
No. advanced readers                                    284
No. in Geography                                         95
No. in Arithmetic                                       204
No. in higher branches                                   14
No. in Writing                                          295
No. in Needle Work                                        3 
No. free before the war                                   6    
No. Sabbath Schools                                       8 
No. Teachers in Sabbath Schools                          68
No. Pupil in Sabbath Schools                           1068 

Day and night schools not reported above                250
No. pupil (estimated) in such schools                 13000
No. teachers white 225 colored 150
No. Sabbath Schools not reported above 
NO. pupils (estimated)in such schools
NO. teachers white    colored
Industrial Schools  1
No. pupils in all    100  
Amount of tuition paid by the freemen during the month $159.25
Amount of expenses for the above schools by the Bureau for the month $169.25
Total expenses per month for the support of the above schools by all parties $329.50
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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