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Teacher's Monthly School Report
For the Month of February 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.

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Name and location of 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 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 Assistant in your School?  Two  White  Two  Colored  None 
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?*  131  Male  61  Female  70 
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, will equal the whole number now enrolled.}
What number of pupils enrolled last report?  150 
What number left School this month?  36 
What number of new scholars this month?  17 
What is the average attendance?  95 
What number of pupils pay tuition?  99 
What number of white pupils?  None 
What number always present?  Forty-four 
What number always punctual?  Fifty 
What number over sixteen years of age?  Fourteen 
What number in Alphabet?  Three 
What number spell and read easy lessons?  Seventy-one 
What number of advanced readers?  Fifty-seven 
What number in Geography?  Twenty-five 
What number in Arithmetic?  Sixty-eight 
What number in high branches?  Twelve 
What number in writing?  Sixty-three 
What number in needlework?  None 
What number free before the war?  Twenty five 
Have you a Sabbath School?  We have 
What number of Teachers in Sabbath School?  Four 
What number of pupils in Sabbath School?  Twenty one 
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?  $19.00 
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month?  Nothing 
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. 

*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 Virginia 

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