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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?  Winchester colored school at Winchester. Va
Of what grade? Intermediate and Primary
When did your present session commence? Jan 6th
When to close?  In March
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.?  In part
What Society?  Free Baptist Home Mission.
Is your school supported wholly or in part by a local Pub. School Board?  It is not
Is your school supported wholly or in part by Freedmen? In part
Have you had Bureau transportation? We have not
Who owns the School building?
Is rent paid by Freedman's Bureau? It is
How Much?  $15.00 per month
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? Two
White Two Colored None
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?*  150
Male  Sixty-seven
Female  Eighty-three
What number of pupils enrolled last report?  Eighty
{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?  Twelve
What number of new scholars this month?  Eighty-two
What is the average attendance?  One hundred and nine
What number of pupils pay tuition?  Fifty three
What number of white pupils?  One
What number always present?  Forty three
What number always punctual?  Thirty
What number over sixteen years of age?  Thirteen
What number in Alphabet?  Three
What number spell and read easy lessons?  Eighty-two
What number of advanced readers?  Sixty-five
What number in Geography?  Twenty-three
What number in Arithmetic?  Forty-eight
What number in higher branches?  Fifteen
What number in writing?  Sixty five
What number in needlework?  None
What number free before the war?  Twenty
Have you a Sabbath School?  We have not
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School?  None
What number of pupils in Sabbath School?  None
Have you an Industrial School?  No
State kind of work done?  Nothing

☞ To the following questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."
1. How many Day or Night Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau?  None
Number of pupils (estimated) in such Schools?
2. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools?  None
White,  None
Colored,  None
3. Give name and Post Office address of the Teachers,  None to give
4. How many Sabbath Schools within your knowledge, not reported to the Bureau?  None
5. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools?  None
White,  None
Colored,  None
6. Whole amount of tuition paid by colored pupils during the month?  $21.00
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month?  Not any thing
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month?  $15.00
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,
10. Remarks.
We have had night school in number 80. m. 47. f. 33. av. atten. 46
 
*A pupil is not to be reported as enrolled until after five days' attendance.

(Signed)  M.J. Stowers.  E.E. Deering
Teacher of Freedmen's School at  Winchester Va.

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