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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of Feb., 1870.

☞ To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.
☞ A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one Assistant, is to be reported as one School.

Name of your School? Colored School no one Township
Location (town, county, or district)? 18. Range 6 Perry Co.
Is it a Day or Night School? Day School
Of what grade? Not graded.
When did your present session commence? Jan 1st 1870
When to close? Time not specified
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? No   
What Society? 
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?* [[strikethrough]] Yes [[/strikethrough]] No
Name of Board or Committee?   
Amount paid this month? 
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* Yes 
Name of Board or Committee?    
Am't pd. this month? 
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen? No   
Amount paid this month? 
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? Yes   
Amount paid this month? 
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? No 
Who owns the School-building? The Freedmen. 
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No  
How much per month? Barry Jeffries $10
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? one   
White? 1
Colored
Total enrolment for the month?† 56  
Male? 80 
Female? 26
Number enrolled last report? 35  

{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, must equal the present total enrolment.}

Number left school this month
Number new Scholars this month? 21 
What is the average attendance? 40

{Schools are to be kept five days per week and six hours each day.}

How many hours have you taught per day? 7
How many days have you taught this month? 19
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.}
Bad weather

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]}

Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? 
Number of White Pupils? 
Number always present? 30 
Number always punctual? 30
Number over 16 years of age? 3
Number in Alphabet? 11
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? 24
Number in advanced readers? 19
Number in Geography? 14
Number in Arithmetic? 13
Number in higher branches? 
Number in Writing? Have no desks 
Number in Needle-work? 
Number free before the war? 
Have you a Sabbath-School?   
How many Teachers? 
How many Pupils? 
Have you an Industrial School?   
How many Teachers? 
How many Pupils? 
State the kind of work done? 

☞ To the following questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."
1. Do you know of any Schools for Refugees or Freedmen not reported to the State Superintendent?  
How many? 
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools? 
No. of Teachers, 
White, 
Colored, 
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent?  
How many? 
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?   
No. of Teachers, 
White, 
Colored, 
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, 
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?  
Name of the Society? 
Remarks. 
The attendance larger than last month. The school is improving rapidly patrons are greatly encouraged. Prejudice is dying out and "Yankee" methods of teaching are becoming popular. 

(Signed) Gen. N Caid
Teacher

* Or School Committee, either District, Town, City, County, or State?
† A pupil is not to be REPORTED as enrolled until after five days' attendance.

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