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

[Ed. Form, No. 3.]

TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of May, 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?   La Fayette Col'd. 
Location (town, county, or district)?  LaFayette Chambers County Alabama.
Is it a Day or Night School?  Both
Of what grade?  
When did your present session commence?   8th April
When to close?  20th of December.
Is your School supported by an Educational Society?  No 
What Society? 
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?*  No   
Name of Board or Com.?  none 
Am't pd. this month?  
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?*  No
Name of Board or Com.?  none 
Am't pd. this month?  
Is your School supported wholly by the Freedmen?   It is 
Amount paid for this month?  $31 00.
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?  W S Allen
Is rent paid by the Freedmen's Bureau?  No
How much?  Nothing
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?  One 
White?  1
Colored?  
Total enrolment for the month?†   Seventy SEven (77) 
Male?  38
Female?  39
Number enrolled last report?   

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

Number left school this month?  None
Number new Scholars this month?  
What is the average attendance?  Full
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid?  thirty one  
Number of White Pupils?  None
Number always present?  About all
Number always punctual?  About all
Number over 16 years of age?   Thirty Six
Number in Alphabet?   three
Number who spell, and read easy lessons?  thirty nine
Number in advanced readers?   thirty four
Number in Geography?    Two
Number in Arithmetic?  Seven
Number in higher branches?  None
Number in Writing?  Thirty eight
Number in Needle-work?  None
Number free before the war?  None 
Have you a Sabbath-School?  Yes
How many Teachers?   5
How many Pupils?  56
Have you an Industrial School?  No  
Number of Pupils?  
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? 
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?   No
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,  Very bad  bad  Bad
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society?   16
Name of the Society?  Do not know
Remarks.  

(Signed)  M. P. Meadows
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.

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