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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of January, 1867, Northern 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.

* This has reference to the present season
☞ This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number or cypher.

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

[[35 Columned Table]]
| No of Day-Schools. | No of Night-Schools. | NAME AND LOCATION OF SCHOOL.  | Present Session. When opened. | Present Session. When to close. | SOCIETIES, &c, PATRONS. | 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.  White. | TEACHERS. Col'd. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. [Both Day and Night Schools.] Male. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. [Both Day and Night Schools.] Fem'e. | 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. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 1 | Athens - Trinity | Oct 1867 | June 1868 | A.M.A. & F.A.C. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 92 | 89 | 182 | 43 | 22 | 109 | 23 | 0 | 30 | 35 | 59 | 15 | 35 | 121 | 42 | 86 | 21 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 200 | 
| 1 | 0 | Stevenson Key Stone | Sept 1867 | May - | Pitts - Aid Commission | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 60 | 65 | 124 | 0 | 1 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 86 | 20 | 15 | 25 | 70 | 50 | 65 | 25 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 128. | 
| 1 | 0 | Florence, Ala. | Sept 67 | June | Pitts Aid Society | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 83 | 03 | 150 | 0 | 25 | 160 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 131 | 10 | 40 | 130 | 85 | 17 | 108 | 0 | 108 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 90 | 
Totals.
| 3 | 1 4 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 9 | 14 | 247 461 | 456 | 43 | 48 | 355 | 23 | 0 | 246 | 251 | 89 | 70 | 190 | 276 | 109 | 259 | 46 | 243 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 18 | 418 |   

☞ To these questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."

1. How many of above Schools are graded?   Two
How many grades?   Three
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  One
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?   thirty
No. Teachers in all,  One
White,   One
Colored, 
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above?   One
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?   "Don't Know' 
No. Teachers in all,   three
White,  One
Colored, 
4. How many Industrial Schools?   None
Whole No. pupils in all?   None
State the kind of work done,   None
5. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month,   Eleven 50/100 dollars
6. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month,   Sixty dollars.
7. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties,  ~
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,   three
How many pupils in all?   ~
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Good.
10. Remarks.

Robert Harrison
Capt 33rd US Inf & Sub Asst Comr BRF & AL Dist Nor

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