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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of October, 1868, Talladega 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 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 | 0 | Talladega Normal School | Oct 5th | June 28 | Am Miss Aso | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 43 | 52 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 26 | 3 | 17 | 37 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 170 |   
| 1 | 0 | Columbiana | Oct 13 |   | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 28 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 49 | 
| 1 | 0 | Shelby Iron Works | July |   | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 20 | 64 | 12 | 6 | 43 | 20 | 0 | 43 | 39 | 29 | 0 | 57 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 75 | 
| 1 | 0 | Talladega Jr | Oct 1 | Jan 1 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 0 | 1 | Hopson Talladega | Oct 1 |   | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 0 | 1 | Talladega | Sept 1 |   | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 30 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
Totals.
| 4 | 2 6 |   |   |   |   | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 8 | 46 | 88 234 | 94 | 16 | 158 | 180 | 89 | 0 | 136 | 117 | 99 | 5 | 114 | 66 | 10 | 114 | 0 | 134 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 294 | 

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

1. How many of above Schools are graded?  0
How many grades?   0
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?   2
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?   47
No. Teachers in all,  2
White,  0
Colored,  2
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, $66.25
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,  $12
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  $78.25
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  1
How many pupils in all?   57
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  More favorable than ever before
10. Remarks.  Miss Thompson has opened a school in a very small room at Columbiana not large enough to hold he pupils, in anticipation of having a school house built on the Land, for which deed has been forwarded to Asst Comr for approval and asking an appropriation of $350 to built

Geo. P. Sherwood
1st. Lieut 42d US Inf Sub Asst Comr

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