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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of January, 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 and location of your School? Pungoteague Smiths School
Of what grade? Mixed. Ordinary & Advanced (3 Scholars)
When did your present session commence? Jan 18th. When to close?
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? Yes. What society? Am. Miss Assn in Part
Is your School supported wholly or in part by a local Pub. School Board? No.
Is your School supported wholly or in part by Freedmen? Yes.
Have you had Bureau transportation? No
Who owns the School building? Freedmen
Is rent paid by Freedman's Bureau? - How much? Apropriation $50. by O. B.
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? 1. White 0. Colored 1.
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* Fifty. Male 22 Female 28
What number of pupils enrolled last report? 0
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, will equal the whole number now enrolled.}
What number left School this month? 50
What number of new scholars this month? all new
What is the average attendance? Forty seven
What number of pupils pay tuition? 0.
What number of white pupils? 0.
What number always present? Forty three.
What number always punctual? Thirty seven.
What number over sixteen years of age? Two.
What number in Alphabet? Thirty three
What number spell and read easy lessons? Thirteen
What number of advanced readers? Three
What number in Geography? Eleven
What number in Arithmetic? Eleven
What number in higher branches? 0
What number in writing? Three
What number in needlework? 0
What number free before the war? Twenty three
Have you a Sabbath School? Yes
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School? Four
What number of pupils in Sabbath School? Twenty
Have you an Industrial School? No.
State kind of work done?
☞To the following questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the letter the word "about."
1. How many Day or Night Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau? 0
Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools? 0
2. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? 0 White, 0 colored, 0
3. Give name and Post Office address of the Teachers, [[strikethrough]] Lucinda A Spivery Pungoteague Va [[/strikethrough]] Miss S. signed this [[????]]
4. How many Sabbath Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau? 0
5. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? 0 White, 0 Colored, 0
6. Whole amount of tuition paid by colored pupils during the month? 0
Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? 0
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Not particularly hostile, but oft not favorable
10. Remarks.
*A pupil is not to be reported as enrolled until after five days' attendance.
(Signed)
Lucinda A. Spivery
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Pungoteague VaTranscription Notes:
Cannot make out words after "Miss S. signed this," noted with [[?????]]
