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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of July, 1868, Claiborn  Sub District, State of Alabama

☞ A School under the district control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one School.
☞ To contain one entire ca'endar month, and 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. | 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. Teachers in  Sabbath Schools. | No. Pupils in Sabbath School. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 |   | Claiborne Claiborne [[?]] ala. | April 20 1868 | July 31' 1868: | Freedmen | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | .1 | - | 3 | 21 | 24 | - | - | 20 | 24 | - | 20 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 2 | - | - | - | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 
Totals.
| 1 | - | 1 |   |   |   |   | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 21 | 24 | 24 | - | - | 20 | 24 | - | 20 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 2 | - | - | - | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 30 |   

☞ To these questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."
1. How many of above Schools are graded?   None
How many grades?   None
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?   None
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?   Twenty four
No. Teachers in all,   1
White,  1
Colored,   None
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above?   None 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  None
No. Teachers in all,   None
White,   None
Colored,   None
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,   TwentyDollars
6. Whole amount of expenses for support of the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,   Nothing
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,   Nothing
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  None
How many pupils in all?   None
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  To some extent prejudicial
10. Remarks.  There are several localities in this Sub district where colored schools might be organized if the proper steps were taken by the Bureau in furnishing the means, and if not thus encouraged, the Freedmen cannot help themselves.

A. J. Bennitt
1st. Lieut 15" Infantry Sub Asst Comr

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