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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, country or district)? Lexington, Va.
Is it a Day or Night School? Both
Of what grade? Not Graded
When did your present session commence? Nov 3rd
When to close? June 25.
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 for entire sup't of school.
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? Yes. 
Amount paid this month? Five dollars
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? [[strikethrough]] Have not [[/strikethrough]] Transportation for one teacher.
Who owns the School-building? Rev. N. C. Brackett.
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? Think not.
How much per month? Nothing (I presume.)
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? Two 
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? Ten.
Number new Scholars this month? Six.
What is the average attendance? One hundred one

{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? Twenty.
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.}

Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? Eighty.
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? Forty.
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? 120.
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? Not Any.
State the kind of work done? Not any

☞ 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? Yes.
How many? One.
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools? About sixty.  
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, no sympathy with them (or anything connected with them.
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society? Several  
Name of the Society? Temperance Benevolent So.
Remarks. This report would have been forwarded earlier had blanks come sooner.

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

* Or School Committee, either District, Town, City, County, or State?
† A pupil is not to be REPORTED as enrolled until after five days' attendance.

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