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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of August, 1868, Opelika 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 calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the 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. Pupils in Sabbath Schools. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 |   | Mill Town |   |   |   | 1 | = | = | = | 1 | 1 | = | 22 | 28 | 43 | = | 7 | 42 | = | = | 43 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 30 | 5 | 2 | = | = | 3 | 5 | = | 1 | 1 | 50 | 
| 1 |   | Girard College | June |   |   | 1 | = | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 17 | 2 | 39 | 13 | 3 | 26 | 29 | = | 22 | 20 | 7 | + 29 | = | = | 3 | = | 5 | = | = | 1 | 3 | 37 | 
| 1 |   | Lay [[La]] Fayette College Opelika Ala | Apr. | Dec, |   | 1 | = | = | = | 1 | -1  | = | 21 | 21 | 38 | = | 4 | 42 | 40 | = | 42 | 42 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 18 | 2 | 18 | = | 32 | = | = | 1 | 5 | 57 |  
| 1 |   | Bucher Academy Bluffton Ala |   |   |   | 1 | = | = | = | 1 | 1 | = | 12 | 17 | 29 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 8 | = | 24 | 24 | 5 | = | 9 | 20 | 11 | 23 | 10 | 23 | 9 |   | 1 | 6 | 50 | 
| 1 |   | Jenkins School | May | Nov |   | 1 | = | = | = | 1 | 1 | = | 20 | 30 | 58 | 8 | = | 45 | 10 | = | 40 | 40 | 2 | = | 38 | 15 | 8 | 13 | = | 15 | 5 | = | 1 | 4 | 60 | 
Totals.
| 5 |   |   |   |   |   | 5 |   |   |   | 5 | 4 | 1 | 92 | 108 200 | 207 | 26 | 19 | 179 | 87 |   | 171 | 169 | 25 | 4 | 130/120 | 58 | 23 | 57 | 10 | 78 | 19 |    5 | 19 | 254 | 

☞ 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, 
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,  $54 50/100
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  = 
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,   6
How many pupils in all?   200
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Generally opposed to them
10. Remarks.  There is a School in the Sub. Dist. near Girard, Ala, from which I have not rec. any reports, for the Month of August, 1868  Cause unknown

D. B. Smith
Act. Sub Asst. Commissioner

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