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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL-REPORT,

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of January, 1867, Mobile District, State of Alabama.

☞ A School under the district control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be as one School.
☞ To be forwarded as soon as possible after the 1st of each month.

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

* This has reference to the present season
☞ 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, OR THE NAME OF SCHOOL. | When opened. | SOCIETIES, &c, PATRONS. Teachers. | Societies, &c. Patrons. Society. | 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. Male. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. 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-Schools. | No. pupils in Sabbath-Schools. |
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| 1 | 1 | Stone St. School | Nov. 3 1866 | H. Hall, | Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 61 | 64 | 100 | 25 | 20 [[strikethrough]] 5 [[/strikethrough]] | 86 | 65 | 0 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 50 | 57 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 250 |
|  1 | 1 | Wilkinson School | Nov. 3 1866 | Mr. Saxon, | Independent |  0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 16 | 27 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 31 | 15 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 21 | 12 | 31 | 21 | 31 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 50 |        
| 1 | 1 | Lipscomb School | Nov. 3 1866 | John Thomas | Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 17 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 31 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40 |          
| 1 | 1 | Mass. School | Nov. 3 1866 | P. Martin | Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 45 | 0 | 0 | [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] 45 | 59 | 75 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 48 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |           
| 1 | 1 | St. Lawrence School | Nov. 3 1866 |   | Amer. Miss. Assoc. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 56 | 75 | 0 | [[strikethrough]] 1 [[/strikethrough]] 11 | 82 | 40 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 36 | 15 | 18 | 0 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50 |             
| 1 | 1 | Female Seminary | Nov. 3 1866 |   | Amer. Miss. Assoc. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 60 | 1 | 19 | 56 | 75 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 19 | 25 | 56 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 30 |         
| 1 | 1 | Good Shepherd | Nov. 3 1866 | Miss. Stone | Indp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 32 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 51 | 0 | 45 | 40 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50 |          
| 1 | 1 | St. Anthony St. | Nov. 3 1866 | Miss. Jennie Ashe | Indp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 25 | 40 | 0 | [[strikethrough]] 3 [[/strikethrough]] 5 | 38 | 45 | 0 | 38 | 15 | 0 | 20 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |     
| 1 | 1 | Sandy Bottom | Nov. 3 1866 | Mrs. Williams. | Indp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 0 | [[strikethrough]] 1 [[/strikethrough]] 5 | 20 | 35 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 1 | 1 | St. Michael St. | Nov. 3 1866 | Miss. Emma Saxon |  Indp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 22 | 40 | 10 | [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] 19 | 36 | 40 | 0 | 20 | 15 | 0 | 18 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TOTALS 
| 10 | 10 20 |   |   |   | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 7 | [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] 234 | 370  604 | 442 | 36 | [[strikethrough]] 102 [[/strikethrough]] 198 | 464 | 488 | 15 | 377 | 218 | 2 | 134 141 | 327 | 136 | 75 | 147 | 33 | 189 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 470 |                 

☞ To these questions give exact, or approximate, answers.
1. How many of above Schools are graded?   1 
How many grades?   2 
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  6 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  90 
No. Teachers in all,  9 
White,  3 
Colored,  6 
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above?  5 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  1190 
No. Teachers in all,  50 
White,  8 
Colored,  42 
4. How many Industrial Schools?  0 
Whole No. pupils in all?  0 
State the kind of work done,  0
5. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month,  $638 
6. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, 
7. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties,  $533.30 This includes rents, teachers salaries fuel & board 
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  Fem Sem. 
How many pupils in all?  75 
9. Remarks.  Schools outside of the A.M.A. have not given any former reports, and the present one is obtained by the visitation of the Supt. to the respective schools, from which there has been gathered the items as herein set forth. As the Colored teachers keep no regular register of attendance, or class register a desirable report could  not well be given 

E. C. Branch,
Dist. Supt. 

Transcription Notes:
1866 Nov. 3 |not completed Not sure how SOCIETIES AND PATRONS should be written Looks as if writer made two columns out of this Column. i.e., Teachers. - Society, I just added another column to reflect. 1/2 - fully transcribed - pls review ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-03 11:16:23