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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
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.

[Answers placed here.]
Name of your School?    Coan School
Location (town, county, or district)?  Lexington, VA
Is it a Day or Night School?  Both
Of what grade? not graded
When did your present session commence?   Nov 8
When to close? June 20th
Is your School supported by an Educational Society?   Yes
What Society? Free Baptist Home Mission Society
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?*   No
Name of Board or Com.?   None
Am't pd. this month? Nothing
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?*   No
Name of Board or Com.?   None
Am't pd. this month? Nothing
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen?  No 
Amount paid this month? Nothing to support it entirely
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? Yes  
Amount paid this month? $5.00
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? No. Transportation for one teacher. 
Who owns the School-building? Rev. N.C. Brackett
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau?   Don't know.
How much per month? Don't know.
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School?  Two teachers 
White? Two
Colored? None
Total enrolment for the month?†   152
Male?  82
Female? 70
Number enrolled last report?   156

{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, must equal the present total enrolment.}

Number left school this month? 10
Number new Scholars this month? 6
What is the average attendance? 101

{Schools are to be kept five days per week and six hours each day.}

How many hours have you taught per day? Seven
How many days have you taught this month? 20
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.}

Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? 80 (all or in part.)
Number of White Pupils? One
Number always present? fifty Six
Number always punctual? Fifty
Number over 16 years of age? Fifty Five
Number in Alphabet? Four.
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? Ninety
Number in advanced readers? Fifty Eight
Number in Geography? Forty
Number in Arithmetic? Seventy four
Number in higher branches? Eighteen
Number in Writing? One hundred twenty
Number in Needle-work? none
Number free before the war? Ten 
Have you a Sabbath-School?   Yes
How many Teachers?  Six 
How many Pupils? Seventy
Have you an Industrial School? No  
How many Teachers?   None
How many Pupils? None
State the kind of work done? Nothing 

☞ 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?   "About" One.
How many? One.
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools? Don't know.  
No. of Teachers, one
White, none
Colored, one
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent? Yes  
How many? Two
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?  One hundred 
No. of Teachers, ten
White, six
Colored, four
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, have no means of knowing.
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society? Several  
Name of the Society? Benevolent Temperance So.
Remarks. 

(Signed) E.L. Oliver, A.M. Shaw
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.