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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
To Bureau R. F. & A. L., for the month of October, 1868, Opelika 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.

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

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

[[37 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. |
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| 1 | 00 | "Girard Colored" Girard Russell Co Ala, | Oct. 1st 1868 |   |   | 00 | 1 | 00 | 00 | 1 | 2 | 00 | 35 | 40 | 00 | 00 | 75 | 65 | 8 | 00 | 62 | 60 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 43 | 12 | 9 | 00 | 10 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |

| 1 | 00 | "Auburn Colored" Auburn Lee Co. Ala, | Oct. 1st 1868 |   |   | 00 | 1 | 00 | 00 | 1 | 2 | 00 | 17 | 20 | 38 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 10 | 00 | 27 | 25 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 00 | 8 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |  00 |
| 1 | 00 | "Lime Kiln " Lime Kiln. Lee Co. Ala, | July 1st 1868 |   |   | 00 | 1 | 00 | 00 | 1 | 2 | 00 | 16 | 20 | 25 | 1 | 12 | 32 | 30 | 00 | 28 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 00 | 2 | 00 | 3 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |  00 |
| 1 | 00 | "Pine Level" Pine Level Russell Co Ala, | Oct. 1st 1868 |   |   | 00 | 1 | 00 | 00 | 1 | 2 | 00 | 40 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 00 | 40 | 40 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 2 | 00 | 00 | 1 | 5 | 100 |
TOTALS. 
| 4 | 00 |   |   |   |   | 00 | 4 | 00 | 00 | 4 | 8 | 00  /8 | 108 | 100  /208 | 63 | 7 | 132 | 167 | 88 | 00 | 157 | 153 | 22 | 43 | 84 | 52 | 17 | 16 | 00 | 23 | 00 | 00 | 1 | 5 | 100 |

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

1. How many of above Schools are graded? 00 
How many grades?  00 
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  00 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  00 
No. Teachers in all,  00 
White,  00 
Colored,  00 
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above?  7 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  about 1500 
No. Teachers in all,  51 
White,  4 
Colored,  27 
4. How many Industrial Schools?  00 
Whole No. pupils in all?  00 
State the kind of work done,  00
5. Whole amount of Tuition paid by Freedmen during the month,  $88.00 
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,  $42.50
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  $130.50
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  00 
How many pupils in all?  00 
9.  State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Unfavorable 
10.  Remarks.  I have received no Reports from the Schools at Glenville and LaFayette  The School at Bluffton was closed this month on account of sickness. The School at Girard formerly taught by Nora James is now taught by Mrs. M. L. Cady 

P. B. Smith
Sub Asst Commissioner      
 

Transcription Notes:
1/11 - transcribed - pls review - since there was already a Column designated 'When Opened', I used that column to transcribe the date noted as 'Opened' to the far left, made sense to me not to present as a margin note