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Ed. Form, No. 4
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

For the Month of November 1866.

A School under the distinct counsel of one Teacher, 
or a Teacher with one assistant is to be reported as one School,To be forwarded as soon as possible after the 1st of each month.

Number of Day-Schools...1
Number of Night-Schools...00
Location and Name of School...Union Seminary located on Lawrence St. in St Peters Church on Warren St.
When opened...November 5th
Societies, &c., Patrons...... AMA.
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Number of Schools sustained by freedmen...6
Number of Schools sustained in part by freedmen...1
Number of teachers transported by Bureau...4
Number of School buildings owned by freedmen...00
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau...3
Whole number of teachers...10.... White....5.... Colored...5...
Whole number of pupils enrolled...375...... Male ...134.. Female...241
Number of pupils enrolled last report...00 This is first report.
Number left school this month...00
Number of new scholars this month...125
Average attendance...116
Number of pupils paying tuition...125 All are required to pay something
Number of White pupils...00
Number always present...90
Number always punctual...90
Number over 16 years of age...3
Number in Alphabet...00
Number who spell and read easy lessons...78
Number of advanced readers...36
Number in geography...32
Number in arithmetic...40
Number in higher branches...17
Number in writing...17
Number on needlework...00
Number free before the war...4
Number of Sabbath Schools...5
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools...1300

To these questions give exact, or approximate answers.

1. How many of above Schools are graded? 1 How many grades? 3
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? 00. Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 00.
3. How many Teachers in the above Day or Night Schools? 6. White, 1. Colored, 5
4. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge, and not reported above? 00. Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 00.
5. How many Teachers in the above Sabbath-Schools? 43. White, 6 Colored, 37
6. How many Industrial Schools? 00 Whole number of pupils in all? 00. State the kind of work done, 00. 
7. Whole amount of tuition pad by the Freedmen during the month, 91.40 This is paid by the A.M.A School
8. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, $296.50
9. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties, $1137.21
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, 51. How many pupils in all? 125. Fifty one is the number of scholars as in the two highest grades of the Union Seminary St. Peters Church
11. Remarks
The grand total of expense includes all expenses, transportation [[costs,?]] fuel and expenses of opening & providing for teachers home.  Three teachers at the home occupy all their time in the schoolrooms. [[Sept. Matrins?]] attend to the outside duties assisting in school. Visiting from house to house tracking and administering to the wants of the destitute as opportunity requires. Our work is greatly [[retarded?]] for the want of [[room.?]]  Those sent [[?]] home are uncomfortable, having no doors or [[?]], and no heating accommodations in either.
Respectfully [[submitting?]]
E.C. Branch
Teacher

This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number, or cypher.

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