Quarterly School Reports, 1886-1920.

Arranged chronologically by date of report and thereunder alphabetically by name of school. The quarterly school reports were filled out and sent to the Indian Office in Washington. Information provided varies as the report forms changed periodically. All reports provide the name and location of the school, quarter ending date, and a teacher's certificate; sometimes there is also an agent's/superintendent's certificate attesting to the correctness of the report.

    1886-1892 reports contain the following information regarding employees: names of employees, positions, salary, number of days on duty during month, how subsisted (by government rations, at personal expense, or contractor). Student information includes: name of student, tribe, age, boarding, day, reads, writes, works in arithmetic, advanced to higher grade during quarter, and number of days in attendance.

    1894-1904 reports contain the following information: name of employee, positions, salary, number days on duty during quarter, how subsisted; name of student, tribe, age, sex, boarding, day, number of days in attendance.

    1910 report includes two sections. The first describes pupils enrolled during the quarter (name, degree of blood, tribe, date entered, name of agency, age, and number of days in attendance). The second describes pupils withdrawn during the quarter (name, degree of blood, tribe, date withdrawn, cause of withdrawal, age, and if transferred to other Indian schools name of school). There is also a summary section which lists the number of pupils in each grade, the number of days school was in session, new pupils enrolled, enrollment during preceding quarters, withdrawals, present enrollment, and the number of boys and girls in school.

    1912-1920 reports include the student's name, age, tribe, degree of blood, name of agency and reservation. Also included is the date entered, months in school before enrollment, grade (on entering here, at date of report) in what trade or industry instructed during quarter, distance to nearest public school from home, number of days in attendance, and remarks. The reports include a recapitulation section and a section for breakdown of pupils, by grade, ages, tribes, degree of blood, number of outing pupils, number of pupils transported at government expense, and value of school products consumed.

    There are gaps in these records. Not all quarters are available for any given year and the schools the reports cover vary from quarter to quarter and one year to the next. There are no reports for 1893, 1895, 1905-1909, and 1911.