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Sub Asst Commissioner's [[strikethrough]] DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S [[/strikethrough]] MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of April, 1868, Montgomery 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.

[[36 Columned Table]]
|   | No. of Day Schools. | No. of Night Schools. | NAME AND LOCATION OF SCHOOL. [[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]| 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. |
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| ☞ This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number or cypher. | 5 |   | "Swayne School |   |   | Montgomery Ala | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | 6 | - | 201 | 212 | 469 | 94 | 38 | 286 | 190 | - | 132 | 207 | 43 | 21 | 277 | 115 | 140 | 160 | - | 154 | - | - | - | - | - |
|   | 1 |   | "Loftin's School" |   |   | Montgomery Ala | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 60 | 30 | 74 | 4 | 20 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 50 | 23 | 3 | 30 | 40 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 50 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 400 |
|   | 1 |   | "Crumps School" |   |   | Montgomery Ala | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 18 | 20 | 30 | - | 8 | 22 | 38 | - | 27 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 6 | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - |
|   | 1 |   | "Yankeetown School" |   |   | Graves Landing | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 31 | 28 | 32 | 0 |27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 59 | 16 | 6 | 40 | 6 | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 60 |
|   | 1 |   | "Turners School" |   |   | Wetumpka Ala |  - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 35 | 48 | - | - | 83 | 75 | 30 | - | 75 | 75 | 12 | 2 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 43 | - | 43 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 125 |
|   | 1 |   | "Sales School" |   |   | Autauga Co Ala | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 11 | 22 | - | - | 33 | 22 | 2 | - | 32 | 32 | 3 | - | 30 | 0 | 5 | 2 | - | 8 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 69 |
|   | 1 |   | "Burrells School" |   |   | Lowndes Co Ala |  - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 24 | 43 | - | - | 67 | 45 | - | - | 45 | 42 | 5 | 10 | 40 | 17 | 7 | 17 | - | 25 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 100 |
|   | 1 |   | "Kendalls School" |   |   | Montgomery Co | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |  21 | 15 | - | - | 36 | 23 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 14 | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
|   | 1 |   | "McDuffie's School" |   |   | Montgomery City | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 27 | 13 | - | - | 40 | 32 | 40 | 12 | - | - | 23 | - | 33 | 6 | 6 | 8 | - | 33 | - | - | - | - | - |
|   | 1 |   | "Eliza Coles School" |   |   | Montgomery City | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 9 | 8 | - | - | 17 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 22 |
|   |   | 1 | "Loftin School" |   |   | Montgomery City |  - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 15 | 10 | - | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - |
|   |   | 1 | "Miss L Oer School | Discontinued |   |   |  - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 60 | 60 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals.  | 14/17 | 7√/17 |   |   |   |   |   | 15 |   |   | 17√ | 16/21 | 5/21 | 452/901 | 449/901 | 690 | 158 | 369 | 630 | 300 | 12 | 440 | 487 | 167 | 74 | 538 | 247 | 236 | 266 | 11 | 334 |   | 3 | 6 | 12 | 776 |

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

1. How many of above Schools are graded? 
How many grades? 
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? 
No. Teachers in all, 
White, 
Colored, 
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above? 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? 
No. Teachers in all, 
White, 
Colored, 
4. How many Industrial Schools? 
Whole No. pupils in all? 
State the kind of work done,
5. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month,    $164.15/100
6. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month,  $153 00/100
7. Grand total of expense for support of the above Schools by all parties for the month,  $703 72/100
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools, 
How many pupils in all? 
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,
10. Remarks.

J. C. Hendrix
Sub Asst Commissioner