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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of October, 1868, Demopolis 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 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. Pupils in Sabbath Schools. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 |   | Demopolis Col'd School Demopolis Ala | Act 1" 68 | June 1" 69 |   | 1 |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 27 | 15 |   |   | 42 | 40 | 42 |   | 38 | 38 | 20 | 5 | 37 | 6 | 5 | 5 |   | 10 |   |   | 1 | 6 | 100 |  
| 1 |   | Livingston Col'd School Livingston Ala. | Oct 1." 68 | June 30" 69 |   | 1 |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 24 | 32 |   |   | 56 | 52 | 56 |   | 50 | 47 | 12 | 4 | 52 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 2 | 24 |   |   | 1 | 8 | 90 | 
Totals.
| 2 | 2 |   |   |   |   | 2 |   |   |   |   | 2 | 2 | 51 | 47 98 |   |   | 98 | 92 | 98 |   | 88 | 85 | 32 | 9 | 89 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 2 | 34 |   |   | 2 | 14 | 190 |  

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

1. How many of above Schools are graded?   2
How many grades?   Two
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,  $98 00
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,  $15 00
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  $113 00
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  -
How many pupils in all?   -
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Favorable
10. Remarks.  These schools are under the supervision and protection of B.R.F. & A.L. but receive but little pecuniary support therefrom

R A Wilson
Sub. Asst. Com.

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