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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of February, 186[[strikethrough]]8[[/strikethrough]]9.

☞ 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? Garretsonian.   
Location (town, county, or district)? Huntsville.  
Is it a Day or Night School? Day  
Of what grade? Primary  
When did your present session commence? Jan 16, 1869   
When to close? Not determined. 
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.? State Trustees  
Am't pd. this month? 0 
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* 0   
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? No.   
Amount paid for this month? 0  
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? Yes.  
Who owns the School-building? Freedmen  
Is rent paid by the Freedmen's Bureau? No   
How much? 0  
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 2   
White? 1  
Colored? 1  
Total enrolment for the month?† 192   
Male? 95  
Female? 97  
Number enrolled last report? 171   

{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? 11  
Number new Scholars this month? 32  
What is the average attendance? 133  
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid?   
Number of White Pupils? 0   
Number always present? 130 
Number always punctual? 120  
Number over 16 years of age? 13  
Number in Alphabet? 49  
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? 51 
Number in advanced readers? 92 In Second &. Third Readers
Number in Geography? 92  
Number in Arithmetic? (Mental) 92  
Number in higher branches? 00  
Number in Writing? 25  
Number in Needle-work? 0 
Number free before the war? 00 
Have you a Sabbath-School? Yes 
How many Teachers? 12   
How many Pupils? 150  
Have you an Industrial School? No   
Number of Pupils?  
State the kind of work done?  

☞ 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? 0  
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?   
No. of Teachers,  
White,  
Colored,  
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, I think it more favorable of late.  
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society? 00   
Name of the Society?  
Remarks.  

(Signed) M. Maria Harrington.
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:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-23 23:15:55 formatting, other errors There is an extra 92 written by the author that does not correspond with an answer. Placed it on its own line. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-24 10:10:52 Deleted the extra "92" as there is only three of them written.