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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of February, 1868.

☞ 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.

[Answers placed here.]
Name of your School? Opelika Opelika
Location (town, county, or district)?  
Is it a Day or Night School?  
Of what grade?  
When did your present session commence? October  
When to close? Feb 29th 1868
Is your School supported by an Educational Society?   
What Society? 
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?*   
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month?  
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?*   
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month?  
Is your School supported wholly by the Freedmen? Yes  
Amount paid for this month? Twenty five Dollars
Is your School supported in part by the Freedmen?   
Amount paid for this month?  
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? No
Who owns the School-building? George [[Mutch?]]
Is rent paid by the Freedmen's Bureau? Yes
How much? Ten Dollars per month 
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?   
White?  
Colored? 1
Total enrolment for the month?† 35 
Male? 16
Female? 19 
Number enrolled last report? 34  

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

Number left school this month? 0
Number new Scholars this month? 1 
What is the average attendance? 28 
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? 25 
Number of White Pupils? 0

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

Number always present? 28 
Number always punctual? 28 
Number over 16 years of age? 4
Number in Alphabet? None
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? 10 
Number in advanced readers? 20
Number in Geography? 12
Number in Arithmetic? 10
Number in higher branches? 5 
Number in Writing? 15
Number in Needle-work? None 
Number free before the war? None 
Have you a Sabbath-School? Yes
How many Teachers? 5  
How many Pupils? 100
Have you an Industrial School? No 
Number of Pupils?  
State the kind of work done? 0 

☞ 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.  

(Signed) R. B. Bailey
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.

Transcription Notes:
Note (1-23-2024) Writing is hard to see (thin and light) ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-23 19:22:23 Do not mark as complete if more than one [[?]] ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-23 20:10:24 formatting, missing answers, unknown name is either Match or Mutch, various mistakes, dittos are not dittos but zeros as has been seen before