These series consists of quarterly (1894-1925) and semi annual (1926-1927) school reports (form 5-251 and form 5-246 starting in 1920) that were required to be filed and sent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Information provided varies as the report forms were periodically changed. 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. Reports for 1898-1904 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. Beginning with the September 1902, reports of employees was dropped. The 1920-1927 reports include, name, age, tribe, degree of blood, name of agency and reservation, date entered, months in school before enrollment at the Pipestone Indian School, in what grade (on entering Pipestone, 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.
