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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.

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