This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of December, 1868, Talladega District, State of Ala ☞ 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 Free | Nov 68 | | State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 86 | 89 | 145 | 15 | 45 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 80 | 40 | 15 | 89 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | Columbiana | Oct 68 | | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 30 | 52 | 1 | 14 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 56 | 9 | 0 | 34 | 26 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 106 | | 1 | 0 | Childersburg | No 68 | | State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 35 | | 1 | 0 | Elyton | Aug 6- | | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 23 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 26 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30 | | 1 | 0 | Talladega Normal | Oct 6 | | Am Miss Assoc'n | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 23 | 51 | 11 | 0 | 32 | 23 | 0 | 25 | 23 | 26 | 1 | 17 | 22 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 150 | Totals. | 5 | 0 5 | | | | | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 7 | 165 | 188 353 | 284 | 27 | 96 | 222 | 23 | 9 | 209 | 211 | 90 | 16 | 160 | 105 | 12 | 71 | 0 | 186 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 421 | ☞ 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? 4 Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? 100 No. Teachers in all, 4 White, 0 Colored, 4 3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above? 2 Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? 80 No. Teachers in all, 4 White, 0 Colored, 4 4. How many Industrial Schools? 0 Whole No. pupils in all? 0 State the kind of work done, 5. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month, 0 6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month, 0 7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month, 0 8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools, 0 How many pupils in all? 0 9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Favourable 10. Remarks. Geo. P. Sherwood 1st. Lieut 42d US Inft S.A.C.
Transcription Notes:
1/10 - partially transcribed
1/12 - fully transcribed - pls review