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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of March, 1869, Sub No 2 District, State of Alabama.

☞ A School under the distinct control of the 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.

[[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. 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 School. |
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| 1 |   | Athens Ala | Nov |   |Freedmen & Slate|0|1|3|0|1|3|   | 60 | 90 | 140 | 12 | 22 | 125 | 31 |   | 50 | 75 | 40 | 3 | 20 | 127 | 56 | 66 | 26 | 66 |   |   | 1 | 3 | 200 |
| 1 |   | Decature [[Decatur]] | Jan |   | M & F Aid S |   |   |2|1|   |   | 2 | 74 | 108 | 175 |   | 7 | 113 |   |   | 106 | 106 | 12 | 64 | 55 | 37 | 05 | 12 |   | 18 |   | 01 | 1 | 5 | 90 |
| 1 | 1 | Huntsville Madison County | Jan |   | State | 1 |   | 1 |   | 1 | 1 |   | 41 | 20 | 52 |   | 9 | 52 | 11 |   | 48 | 31 | 54 |   | 13 | 48 | 44 | 61 | 26 | 61 |   | 02 | 1 | 1 | 65 |   |
| 1 |   | Huntsville Madison County | Jan |   | MEF Aid S |   |   | 1 |   | 1 | 1 |   | 17 | 27 | 44 | 04 | 4 | 39 |   |   | 24 | 20 | 05 |   |   | 44 | 41 | 44 |   | 44 |   |   |   |   |   |  
| 1 |   | Huntsville Madison County | Jan |   | State |   |   | 1 | 1 |   | 1 | 1 | 88 | 98 | 192 | 24 | 18 | 143 |   |   | 125 | 125 | 17 | 45 | 51 | 90 | 118 | 118 |   | 36 |   |   | 1 | 19 | 189 | 
| 1 |   | Town. 3. R. 1. E Madison County | Feb |   | State |   |   |   |   | 1 | 1 |   | 33 | 28 | 20 | 18 | 41 | 40 |   |   | 40 | 40 | 03 | 20 | 20 | 01 |   |   |   | 01 |   |   |   |   |   |    
| 1 |   | Town. 3. R 1. E Madison County | Feb |   | State |   |   |   |   | 1 | 1 |   | 36 | 21 | 83 |   | 24 | 48 |   |   | 48 | 48 |   | 15 | 36 | 05 | 05 | 05 |   | 05 |   |   |   |   |   |  
| 1 |   | Town 3. R 2. E Madison County | Mar |   | State |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 1 | 12 | 31 |   |   | 43 | 25 |   |   | 25 | 25 |   | 35 | 07 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 | 1 | 43 |     
| 1 |   | Town 3. R 1 W. Madison County | Mar |   | State |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 1 | 19 | 20 |   |   | 39 | 32 |   |   | 20 | 15 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 13 | 19 | 01 | 12 |   | 05 | 1 | 1 | 39 |  
| 1 |   | Town 4. R. 1. W Madison County | Mar |   | State |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 1 | 56 | 66 |   |   | 122 | 76 |   |   | 62 | 62 | 06 | 25 | 98 | 12 | 43 | 57 |   | 39 |   | 05 | 1 | 4 | 58 |    
| 1 |   | Tuscumbia | Mar |   | State |   |   |   | 1 |   |   | 1 | 40 | 48 |   |   | 88 | 63 |   |   | 63 | 63 | 04 | 12 | 17 | 59 | 09 | 20 | 05 | 22 |   | 01 |   |   |   |   
| 1 |   | Lawrence Co | Jan |   | State |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 1 | 20 | 36 |   |   |   | 35 |   |   | 35 | 35 | 8 | 45 | 11 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
Totals.
 | 12 | 1 13 |   |   |   |   | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 496 | 693 | 636 | 58 | 417 | 791 | 42 |   | 646 | 645 | 110 158 | 226 274 | 369 | 317 449 | 334 | 231 402 | 58 | 239 304 |   | 9  | 7 | 34 | 684 |   

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

1. How many of above Schools are graded?   4
How many grades?   1 t0 3
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  Can not tell
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?   No report
No. Teachers in all, 
White, 
Colored, 
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above?   None
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  0
No. Teachers in all,   0
White,   0
Colored,   0
4. How many Industrial Schools?   None
Whole No. pupils in all?  None
State the kind of work done,  None
5. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month,  $22.30.
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,  $138.00
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  Can not tell state approv.
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,   1
How many pupils in all?   20
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Improving
10. Remarks.

Transcription Notes:
Since 'Madison County' as noted in second column is common to several school locations added it to the name of school, Partial transcription with table not formatted per instructions, made corrections to format, images, etc. 1/9 - transcribed, pls review for errors