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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. 3d   
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? 
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* No.   
Name of Board or Com.? None   
Am't pd. this month? 
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen? No.   
Amount paid this month? Nothing for entire support of school.
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? Yes.   
Amount paid this month? Five Dollars.
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? Yes, for one teacher. 
Who owns the School-building? Rev. N. C. Brackett. 
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? Know not    
How much per month? Know not 
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? 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? 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? 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? 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? None   
How many Teachers? None  
How many Pupils? Not any.
State the kind of work done? 

☞ 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? 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, non inter course, no sympathy.  
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society? Several   
Name of the Society? Benevolent Temperance So,
Remarks. 

(Signed) EL 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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