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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of April 30th 1870, 1870.

☞ 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? Clay Street
Location (town, county, or district)? Lynchburg
Is it a Day or Night School? 
Of what grade? Secondary
When did your present session commence? Oct 69
When to close? 
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? Yes
What Society? P B A F U Com
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?* No
Name of Board or Com.? none
Am't p'd. this month? 0
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* No
Name of Board or Com.? none
Am't p'd. this month? 0
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen? No
Amount paid this month? none
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? Yes  
Amount paid this month? $7.92
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? No
Who owns the School-building? Gov't
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No
How much per month? none
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? One
White? No
Colored? Yes
Total enrolment for the month?† 63
Male? 31
Female? 32
Number enrolled last report? [[strikethrough]] 66 [[/strikethrough]] 59

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

Number left School this month? 8
Number new Scholars this month? 12 [[strikethrough]] 8 [[/strikethrough]]
What is the average attendance? 49 3/4

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

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

Monday the 18th was Easter Monday [[strikethrough]] M [[/strikethrough]] and I had no School on that day.}

Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? 
Number of White Pupils? none
Number always present? ten
Number always punctual? four
Number over 16 years of age? 5
Number in Alphabet? none
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? [[strikethrough]] 63 [[/strikethrough]]
Number in advanced Readers? 63
Number in Geography? 37
Number in Arithmetic? 63
Number in higher branches? 12
Number in Writing? 63
Number in needle-work? 0
Number free before the war? 2
Have you a Sabbath School? No
How many Teachers? 0
How many Pupils? 0
Have you an Industrial School? No
How many Teachers? 0
How many Pupils? 0
State the kind of work done? none

☞ 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? No
How many? 0
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools? none
No. of Teachers, 0
White, 0
Colored, 0
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent? No
How many? 0
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools? none
No. of Teachers, 0
White, 0
Colored, 0
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, 
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society? 
Name of the Society? 
Remarks: 

(Signed.) R.A. Perkins
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.