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[[strikethrough]] DISTRICT [[/strikethrough]] SUPERINTENDENTS MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

To Bureau R. F. & A. L., for the month of April, 1869, Montgomery [[strikethrough]] District [[/strikethrough]], State of Alabama
☞ A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one School.
☞ To contain one entire calender 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 ARCHIVE OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

[[36 column table]]
| No. of Day Schools. | No. of Night Schools. | NAME AND LOCATION OF SCHOOL. | PRESENT SESSION. When opened. | PRESENT SESSION. When to close. | [[strikethrough]] SOCIETIES, &c., PATRONS. [[/strikethrough]] Teachers. | No. Schools sustained by Freedmen. | No Schools sustained in part by Freedmen. | No. Teachers transported by Bureau. | No. School Buildings owned by Freedmen. | No. Schools 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 School. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|   |   | Swayne School Montgomery Ala. | April 21. 1869 |   | G. S. Pope M. E. H. Pope |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 24 | 35 | 80 | 27 | 4 | 48 1/8 | 28 |   | 23 |   | 11 |   |   | 57 | 57 | 57 | 38 | 57 |   |   | 3 | 1 | 8 | 150 |
|   |   | Swayne School Montgomery Ala. | April 21. 1869 |   | G. S. Pope M. E. H. Pope |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   |   |   |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|   |   | Swayne School Montgomery Ala. | April 21. 1869 |   | M V Adams |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 34 | 17 | 48 | 37 | 40 | 43 | 35 |   | 29 | 7 |   |   |   | 51 | 51 | 51 |   | 51 |   | 2 |   |   |   |
|   |   | Swayne School Montgomery Ala. | April 21. 1869 |   | J U. Smock |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 25 | 41 | 51 | 26 | 41 | 47 | 40 |   |   |   | 6 |   |   | 66 | 66 | 66 |   | 66 |   |   |   |   |   |
|   |   | Swayne School Montgomery Ala. | April 21. 1869 |   | Anna B Ackley |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 22 | 32 | 55 | 14 | 13 | 42 | 46 |   | 36 | 30 |   |   |   | 54 | 54 | 54 |   |   |   | 2 |   |   |   |
|   |   | Swayne School Montgomery Ala. | April 21. 1869 |   | M Blackman |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 34 | 31 | 44 | 19 | 46 | 49 | 61 |   |   |   | 7 |   | 48 | 17 | 14 | 13 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
|   |   | Swayne School Montgomery Ala. | April 21. 1869 |   | W L Porter |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 34 | 36 | 43 | 3 | 30 | 60 | 57 |   | 36 |   |   | 20 | 50 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
| TOTALS. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   |   | 1 | 7 |   | 7 | 23 | 190 | 363 | 321 |   |   | 289 1/8 | 257 |   | 124 | 37 | 24 | 20 | 98 | 243 | 222 | 241 | 38 | 174 |   | 7 |   |   |   |
[[/table]]

[[note on table, last 3 columns]]
150 is the No in actual attendance 
The No on our rolls is much greater.
[[/note]]

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

1. How many of the 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. Teacher 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. Teacher 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 Freedmen during the month,
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,
8. Whole No. of High or Normal Schools, 1 
How many pupils in all? 21
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, "We are rising as a people"
10. Remarks. Each teacher has reported the No of new scholars and the No left school in her own school. Most of these have simply been transferred from one grade to another. Some of the teachers did not expect to make a Report for the few days in April and were not prepared to make a correct report.

G Stanley Pope
Supt

Transcription Notes:
A few unknowns in the faded text at the bottom (note - I do not see any unknowns on the bottom as of 2023 Dec 26 16:36 CST).