1871/72 public laws – Ch.189 Sec.29

Every teacher or principal of a school to ee aid shall be given under the provisions of this act, shall keep a daily record of all absences of pupils, and of the grade in scholarship and deportment of each. The grades in scholarship shall be indicated by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; one representing the first or highest grade, and five the lowest, and the three intermediate numbers, the three intermediate grades. The grades in deportment shall be represented by the same numbers and in the same order. At the end of every term of a two or four munths school, and also on or before the first day of October of every year, every teacher of a free school shall deliver to the secretary ot the eounty board of education, a catalogue of the pupils ot the school, in which the average attendance, the scholarship, and the deportment of each pupil shall be shown, by three columns of numbers parallel to the column of names. He shall also give an abstract statement of the length of the term of the school, of the race, number, sex and average attendance of the pupils, also the township and district in which his school is situated.