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TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of March, 1869.

☞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.

Name and location of your School? Amherst C,H  Amherst Co
Of what grade? Primary
When did your present session commence? February 1869
When to close? July
Is your School supported by any Ed. Soc.? No
What Society? None
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? Wholly
Have you had Bureau transportation? No
Who owns the School building? Private Party
Is rent paid by Freedman's Bureau? No
How much? None
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? One
What number of pupils enrolled during the month?* 29
White No
Colored Yes
What number of pupils enrolled last report? 23
Male 14
Female 15

{ 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? 1
What number of new scholars this month? 7
What is the average attendance? 20
What number of pupils pay tuition? 29
What number of white pupils? None
What number always present? 15
What number always punctual? 12
What number over sixteen years of age? 10
What number in Alphabet? 0
What number spell and read easy lessons? 14
What number of advanced readers? 15
What number in Geography? 10
What number in Arithmetic? 12
What number in higher branches? 0
What number in writing? 12
What number in needlework? 6
What number free before the war? 0
Have you a Sabbath School? No
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? None

☞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? None
2. How many Teachers (estimated) in such Schools? None
White, None 
Colored None
3. Give name and Post Office address of the Teachers, None
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?
7. Whole expense for your School by Public School Board for the month? None
8. Whole expense for your School by the Freedmen's Bureau for the month? None
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) Ellen Wills
Teacher of Freedmen's School at Amherst C. H. Va.

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