School Reports
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M799, Series 4
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content: There are two series of monthly school reports: reports from Bureau officers (agents and subassistant commissioners stationed in the subdistricts) and reports from the teachers of freedmen's schools. Both reports were submitted on printed forms and give statistical information about the schools.

The reports from the agents and the subassistant commissioners, January 1867-December 1868, are arranged by month and thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of name of county. They usually list the names and locations of the schools and the societies that sponsored them. The reports show whether the schools were maintained by the freedmen or by societies, whether the building was supplied by the Bureau or owned by the freedmen, the amount of tuition paid by the freedmen, and the Bureau's expenses for the school. The reports also give information concerning the pupils at each school, as follows: sex; color; number of pupils over 16 years of age; degree of literacy; number of pupils in geography, arithmetic, writing, needlework, and the "higher branches"; and the number who were free before the war. Letters of transmittal are occasionally interfiled with the reports.

Beginning in 1868 and interfiled with the reports described above are forms submitted by the agent or subassistant commissioner concerning education in the subdistrict. The 19 questions on the form relate to the number of schools, the location of each school, the number of visits by the officer to the school, the establishment of new schools in the area, and the public sentiment toward education for the freedmen.

The monthly school reports from teachers, October 1865-July 1870, are arranged by month. The reports usually give statistics about the number of pupils, attendance habits, and degree of literacy. They also give information about the financial assistance received by the school.