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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of Dec 30th, 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? Cahaba Collered No 1   
Location (town, county, or district)? Cahaba Dallas County, Ala 
Is it a Day or Night School? Day 
Of what grade?  Mid grade
When did your present session commence? 1st day Nov  
When to close? 31 st day of July 1869 
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? No  
What Society? 
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?* Yes  
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month? none 
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* no   
Name of Board or Com.?   
Am't pd. this month? none
Is your School supported wholly by the Freedmen? No  
Amount paid for this month? None 
Is your School supported in part by the Freedmen? No  
Amount paid for this month?  Nothing
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? No 
Who owns the School-building?  The collered people
Is rent paid by the Freedmen's Bureau? Yes  
How much?  10 dolars per month
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 2  
White? One 
Colored? One  
Total enrolment for the month?†  168
Male?  68
Female?  82 Enrolled but that no. not always present (or punctual)
Number enrolled last report?  150 

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

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

Number left school this month?  None
Number new Scholars this month? None 
What is the average attendance? 130 
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? [[strikethrough]]100[[/strikethrough]]None  
Number of White Pupils? none
Number always present? 130 
Number always punctual? - 
Number over 16 years of age? 46 
Number in Alphabet? 18 
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? 88 
Number in advanced readers?  12
Number in Geography?  15
Number in Arithmetic?  15
Number in higher branches? None 
Number in Writing?  30 of the above can write
Number in Needle-work? None 
Number free before the war? None 
Have you a Sabbath-School? Yes 
How many Teachers?  4 
How many Pupils?  60
Have you an Industrial School? No  
Number of Pupils?  None
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?  None 
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? None  
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)  W G Morris & B.A. Lattimore
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.