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

Ed. Form No. 4
Teacher's Monthly School Report,
For the Month of November 1866.

A school under the district control 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 0
Location, and Name of School Salem, Russell Co. Ala.
When opened June 24 1866
Societies, &c.. Patrons 0
Number of School sustained by freedmen 0
Number of School sustained in part by freedmen 0
Number of teachers transported by Bureau 0
Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 0
Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau 1
Whole number of teachers  one   White  one   Colored none
Whole number of pupils enrolled 43   Male  22   Female  21             
Number of pupils enrolled last report 42
Number left school this month 2
Number of new scholars this month 3
Average attendance 36
Number of pupils paying tuition 0
Number of White pupils 0
Number always present 15
Number always punctual 15
Number over 16 years of age 2
Number in Alphabet 1
Number who spell and read easy lessons 22
Number of advanced readers 21
Number in geography 0
Number in arithmetic 7
Number in higher branches 0
Number in writing 9
Number on needlework 0
Number free before the war 0
Number of Sabbath Schools 0
Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 0

(To these questions give exact, or approximate answers.)
1. How many of above Schools are graded?   0   How many grades? 0
2. How many Day or Night School, within your knowledge, not reported above?   0  Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?0
3. How many Teachers in the above Day or Night Schools?  0          White,      0        Colored,  0
4. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  0            Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?  0
5. How many Teachers in the above Sabbath-Schools?              White,              Colored,  
6. How many Industrial Schools?  0      Whole number of pupils in all?   0             State the kind of work done,  0    
7. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month, 0
8. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, 0
9. Grand total of expense per month for support of above school by all parties, $75.00 per month
10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools,  0  How many pupils in all?  0
11. Remarks. The school is prospering. The attendance is good and the school is well received both by white and black. I shall continue the ensuing months with a prospect of increase.

Moses Y. Pruitt

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

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