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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 Tuscaloosa, Ala When opened Sept 16 66 Societies, &c.. Patrons 0 Number of School sustained by freedmen 0 Number of School sustained in part by freedmen 1 Number of teachers transported by Bureau 1 Number of School buildings owned by freedmen 0 Number of School buildings furnished by Bureau 0 Whole number of teachers 1 White 1 Colored 0 Whole number of pupils enrolled 63 Sixty-three Male 19 Female 44 Number of pupils enrolled last report 60 Number left school this month 3 Number of new scholars this month 6 Average attendance 50 Number of pupils paying tuition 18 Number of White pupils 0 Number always present 30 - The smallness of this number as well as that of "average attendance" is owing to the ravages of Intermittent Fever. Number always punctual 30 Number over 16 years of age 12 Number in Alphabet 0 Number who spell and read easy lessons 26 Number of advanced readers 37 Number in geography 26 Number in arithmetic 50 Number in higher branches 0 Number in writing 63 Number on needlework 0 Number free before the war 4 Number of Sabbath Schools 1 Number of pupils in Sabbath Schools 75 (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? 4 Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 140 3. How many Teachers in the above Day or Night Schools? 4 White, 3 Colored, 1 4. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? 1 Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 50 5. How many Teachers in the above Sabbath-Schools? 4 White, 0 Colored, 4 6. How many Industrial Schools? 11 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, $75 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, $250.00 10. Whole number of High or Normal Schools, 0 How many pupils in all? 0 11. Remarks These are approximate answers Charles C Arms This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number, or cypher.