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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
To Bureau R. F. & A. L., for the month of May, 1868, Selma Sub-District, State of Alabama
☞ A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one School.  ☞ To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.

[[left margin]] ☞ This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number or cypher. [[/left margin]]

[[36 Columned Table]]

| No. of Day Schools | No. of Night Schools | [[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]] 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.) 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. Teachers in Sabbath Schools. | No. Pupils in Sabbath School. |

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| 1 | 1 | Sear's School, Selma | 1867 Oct. 8th |   | AM Miss. Asso & Bur R.F.&A.L. | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 70 | 81 | 155 | 12 | 8 | 121  | 44 | 0 | 93 | 108 | 48  | 1 | 74 | 77 | 126 | 145  | 50 | 135 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 198 |
| 1 | 0 | Presbyterian School, Selma | Oct. 1st |   | Presbyterian Church | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 34 | 51 | 3 | 10 | 50  | 45 | 0 | 45 | 40 | 20 | 0 | 25 | 33 | 33 | 43  | 15 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 200 |
| 1 | 0 | Smith's School, Selma | 1868 Jany 27 |   | Bureau R.F.&A.L. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 55 | 120 | 32 | 0 | 79  | 120 | 0 | 45 | 25 | 20  | 5 | 52 | 31 | 25 | 37  | 2 | 38 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 112 |
| 1 | 0 | Lincoln School, Marion | 1867 Nov 13th |   | AM Miss. Association| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 27 | 54 | 11 | 8 | 40  | 51 | 0 | 12 | 23 | 0  | 1 | 39 | 11 | 13 | 41 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 250 |
| 1 | 0 | Cahaba School, Cahaba | 1868 Feb. 1st |   | AM Miss. Association| 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 0 | 13 | 33 | 20 | 0 | 25 | 20 | 2  | 5 | 11 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 80 |
| 1 | 0 | Belfast School, Pleasant Hill | 1867 Apr 1st |   | None | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 26 | 26 | 0  | 0 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24 |
| 1 | 0 | Shetter's School, near Cahaba | 1868 Feb. 3. |   | Bureau R.F.&A.L. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 12  | 6 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0  | 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1  | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |


[[left margin]] TOTALS. [[/left margin]]

| 7 | 1 [[8]] |   |   |   |   | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 [[9]] | 188 |239 [[427]] |430|58| 55  |361|312|0|258|252|90|14|226|188|207|286|79|271|0|16|6|19|564   

[[left margin]] ☞ To these questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about." [[/left margin]]

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? 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 Freedmen during the month, $149.00
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month, $50.00
7. Grand total of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month, $324.00
8. Whole No. of High or Normal Schools, 0 How many pupils in all? 0
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Lee School Report for May 1868
10. Remarks. 

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Capt 15 [?] USA
Sub. Asst. Comm's

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