School Reports
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1056, Series 7
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content: Archival materials
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content: Among the records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia are four unbound series of reports pertaining to the organization and operation of Bureau-supported schools. Most of these reports were prepared on printed forms and contain statistical data, but a few are narrative reports. 

The series of retained copies of monthly school reports from the Superintendent of Education, October 1865–June 1870, is arranged chronologically. School reports usually give the name of the teacher, name and location of the school, number of students, and name of the sponsoring aid society. Interfiled among the school reports are a few narrative and building reports. Among the narrative reports is one dated January 19, 1867, from Superintendent of Education John Kimball to Assistant Commissioner C. H. Howard explaining that trustees of black schools in the District of Columbia had been denied a proportional share of moneys expended for schools. 

The reports from superintendents of aid society–sponsored schools, June–December, are arranged chronologically. Most of the reports contain information about each school sponsored by the particular society, including names of teachers and number, age, and sex of pupils. A few of the earlier reports in this series are narrative in nature. A third series, monthly reports from subassistant commissioners or agents in Maryland and West Virginia, January–July 1868, is arranged chronologically. The reports give the location and number of schools within various districts, the number and race of the teachers, the value and physical condition of the schools, and public sentiment toward freedmen's schools. 

The last series of school reports, monthly teachers' reports, October 1865–June 1872, is arranged chronologically by month. The reports usually contain such information as name and location of the school, the number of students attending, names of teachers, subject taught, name of the sponsoring society, and public attitude toward black schools. Some of the reports are undated and have been filmed following the 1865 reports because they appear to be reports prepared during that year.