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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of April, 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? Blufton
Location (town, county, or district)? Chambers Co.
Is it a Day or Night School? Day
Of what grade?  
When did your present session commence? April
When to close? the [[strikethrough]] 1st. [[/strikethrough]] June the 30th
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? Yes  
What Society? The M. E. Church Society
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?* No.
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month?  
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* Yes.
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month?  
Is your School supported wholly by the Freedmen? No.  
Amount paid for this month? 0
Is your School supported in part by the Freedmen? Yes 
Amount paid for this month?  
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? No
Who owns the School-building? The Freedman
Is rent paid by the Freedmen's Bureau? No 
How much? None
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? One  
White? One
Colored? None
Total enrollment for the month?† 43
Male? 23
Female? 20

[[margin note]]
23
20/43
[[/margin note]]

Number enrolled last report? This is the first

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

[[margin note]]
My School house is near the line of Georgia and Alabama. I get some aid from the Freemen’s Aid Society of the M.E. Church. my number of pupils from each State Total is 84,

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

Number left school this month? two 2
Number new Scholars this month? 43
What is the average attendance? 34
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? 0
Number of White Pupils? None
Number always present? 34
Number always punctual? 34
Number over 16 years of age? 5
Number in Alphabet? 0
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? 6
Number in advanced readers? 19
Number in Geography? 13
Number in Arithmetic? 0
Number in higher branches? 0
Number in Writing? 0
Number in Needle-work? 6
Number free before the war? 0
0
Have you a Sabbath-School? One
How many Teachers? 5 
How many Pupils? 62
Have you an Industrial School? No
Number of Pupils? 0
State the kind of work done? None

☞ 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? No   
How many? 0
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools? 0
No. of Teachers, 0
White, 0
Colored, 0
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent? No
How many? 0
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools? 0
No. of Teachers, 0
White, 0
Colored, 0
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Bitter, Most all disapprove them
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society? 0
Name of the Society?  
Remarks.  
They oppose the Schools they say because Yankees carry them on

(Signed) Wm. H. Edmundson
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:
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