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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of August, 1868, Selma 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.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] 

☞ This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number or cypher.

[[36 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 Schools. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| 1 | 0 | Sears School. Selma | 1867 Oct 8. |   | Am Miss. Assoc & Bu. RF &c | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 48 | 30 | 70 | 2 | 10 | 61 | 25 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 15 | 1 | 34 | 43 | 77 | 77 | 43 | 77 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 191. | 
| 1 | 0 | Morris School. East Selma | 1868 Jun 10 |   | Bu. RF & A.L | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 23 | 37 | 6 | 7 | 32 | 25 | 0 | 32 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0. | 
| 1 | 0 | Lexington School. Lexington | 1868 May 5 |   | Bu RF & AL | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 30 | 4 | - | 20 | 23 | 0 | 23 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30. |
TOTALS. 
| 3 | 0 /3 |   |   |   |   | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0  /4 | 75 | 67 /142 | 137 | 12 | 17 | 113 | 73 | 0 | 105 | 105 | 20 | 1 | 59 | 68 | 87 | 90 | 45 | 109 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 221 |            

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

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 the Freedmen during the month,  $68 00/000 
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,  $41 00/000 
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  $100 00/000 
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  0 
How many pupils in all?  0 
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  See School report for August 1868.
10. Remarks.

Chas. C. Bartlett
Sub Asst. Comm'r.

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