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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of December, 1868, Demopolis Ala 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.

[[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 | - | Demopolis Cold School No 1 | Oct 1 1868 | June 1 1869 |   | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 35 | 25 | 63 | 3 | - | 45 | 60 | - | 43 | 40 | 7 | - | 38 | 17 | 18 | 9 | - | 19 | - | - | 1 | 6 | 100 | 

|   |  1 | - | Demopolis Col'd School No 2 | Nov 1 1868 | June 30 69 |   | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 28 | 13 | 35 |   | 6 | 30 | 40 |   | 37 | 37 | 6 | - | 30 | 6 | - | - | - | 8 | - | 1 | 1 | 6 | 100 |

|   | 1 | - | Livingston Col'd School | Oct 1868 | June 30 1869 |   | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 23 | 20 | 53 | 10 | - | 30 | 43 | - | 23 | 20 | 5 | - | 10 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 3 | 33 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 90 |

TOTALS. | 3 | -  /3 |   |   |   |   | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1  /3 | 86 | 58 /144 | 151 | 13 | 6 | 105 | 144 | - | 103 | 97 | 18 | - | 78 | 56 | 51 | 42 | 3 | 60 | - | 1 | 3 | 16 | 290 | 

☞ 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,  $72 
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,  $45 00 
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  $117 00 
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  - 
How many pupils in all?  - 
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Fair
10. Remarks.

R A Wilson
Sub Asst Com'r
B.R.F. & A.L.

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1/10 - partially transcribed ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-14 14:01:44 Total Number of students male and female should be 144 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-17 14:34:32