Monthly Reports from District Superintendents
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870 / Series 6: School Reports
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1000, Subseries 6.5
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content: The monthly school reports from district superintendents, January–March 1866 and October 1866–June 1870, are arranged chronologically. They generally report on the schools in a single city or county, though occasionally the information covers several counties, an entire subdistrict, or a single school. The reports are statistical in nature, and were submitted on a variety of forms. They usually list the names and locations of schools and their sponsoring Societies. The reports show whether the schools were maintained by the freedmen or by societies, who owned the building, the amount of tuition paid by the freedmen, and the Bureau's expense for the school. The reports also give a large number of categories of information relating to the pupils at each school as follows: sex; color; number of pupils over 16 years of age; degree of literacy; number of pupils in writing, arithmetic, geography, needlework, and the "higher branches;" and the number who were free before the war. The reports from district superintendents give essentially the same kind of information as the monthly reports prepared by the Superintendent of Education, and were evidently used by him in compiling his reports. Filed at the beginning of the monthly reports from district superintendents are some undated monthly reports, which probably were submitted between October and December 1865. They include reports from Stevenson, ALA., and Paducah, KY.