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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 , 186.

☞ 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?  Beecher Academy
Location (town, county, or district)?  Opelika City Ala
Is it a Day or Night School?  Day
Of what grade?  First in the City
When did your present session commence?  Mar. 1st
When to close?  At the end of Scholastic year
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? No   
What Society? none.
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?   Yes.
Amount paid for this month?  About Eight Dollars
Is your School supported in part by the Freedmen?   Wholy
Amount paid for this month?   About Eight Dollars
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?   One.
White?  Yes
Colored?  None
Total enrolment for the month?†   27.
Male?  12.
Female?  15.
Number enrolled last report?   27.

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

Number left school this month?  2.
Number new Scholars this month?  None.
What is the average attendance?  23
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid?  8
Number of White Pupils?  None.
Number always present?  18.
Number always punctual?  18.
Number over 16 years of age?  5.
Number in Alphabet?  6.
Number who spell, and read easy lessons?  8.
Number in advanced readers?  13.
Number in Geography?  10.
Number in Arithmetic?  21
Number in higher branches?  10.
Number in Writing?  21
Number in Needle-work?  9
Number free before the war?  None.
Have you a Sabbath-School?  Yes.
How many Teachers?   
How many Pupils?  
Have you an Industrial School?   No.
Number of Pupils?  
State the kind of work done?  Plain Sewing.

☞ 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? None.
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?   Not known.
No. of Teachers,  Not known.
White,  Not known.
Colored, Not known.
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent?   No.
How many?  None.
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?   None.
Name of the Society?   
Remarks.  

(Signed)  L.L. Dupree
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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