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[[/stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]
Report
OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION,
BUREAU R., F., & A. L., STATE OF ALABAMA,
for the month of May 1870
No. of Day Schools....................................28
No. of Night Schools....................................
No. Schools sustained by freedmen......................5
No. School buildings owned by Freedmen..................
No. School sustained in part by freedmen................
No. Schoolx buildings furnished by Bureau.............11
No. White teachers....................................43
No. Colored teachers...................................9
Whole number of teachers..............................54
No. male students enrolled..........................1119
No. female students enrolled........................1356
Total number of pupils..............................2475
No. pupils enrolled last report.....................2721
No. left school this month...........................246
No. new scholars this month.............................
Average attendance..................................1860
No. pupils paying tuition............................245
No. white pupils........................................
No. always present..................................1013
No. always punctual..................................897
No. over 16 years of age.............................233
No. in alphabet.........................................
No. spell and read easy lessons......................148
No. advanced readers................................1248
No. in Geography.....................................888
No. in Arithmetic....................................789
No. higher branches.................................1205
No. in Writing........................................69
No. in Needle Work..................................1050
No. free before the war................................5
No. Sabbath Schools....................................6
No. Teachers in Sabbath Schools.......................26
No. pupils in Sabbath schools........................581

Day and night schools not reported above..............50
No. pupils (estimated) in such schools..............8000
No. teachers white....40....colored....25...............
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....$201.50
Amount of expenses for the above schools by the Bureau for the month....................................$399.23
Total expenses per month for the support of the above schools by all parties...........................$600.73
No. places now destitute where schools might be organized....
No. pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools....

Edwin Beecher
Supt. of Education. in Alabam