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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of February, 1868, Demopolis 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 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. | LOCATION, AND NAME 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. Teachers in Sabbath Schools. | No. Pupils in Sabbath School. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| 1 |   | Demopolis | Oct 1" | Not Known | A.M.A and Freedmen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 6 | 0 | 70 | 55 | 7 | 4 | 32 | 45 | 17 | 30 | 11 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 150 | 
| 1 |   | Livingston | Oct 1 | Not Known | A.M.A and Freedmen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 25 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 21 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 \ 5 | 100 |
Totals.
|   | 2 |   |   |   |   | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 4 | 64 | 67 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 113 | 31 | 0 | 110 | 95 | 7 | 25 | 61 | 45 | 17 | 40 | 11 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 250 |

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

1. How many of above Schools are graded?  2
How many grades?   2
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?   0
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?   0
No. Teachers in all,   0
White,   0
Colored,   0
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above?   0
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?   0
No. Teachers in all,   0
White,   0
Colored,  0
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,  Livingston $125. Demopolis $14.20
6. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month,  0
7. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties,  $59.20
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  0
How many pupils in all?   0
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Favorable
10. Remarks.   the Schools reported will close soon unless pecuniary assistance is rendered

A. J. Bennett
1st Lieut 15th. Infty
Sub Asst Comr

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