Definition: Percentage of public school students in grades 5, 7, and 9 scoring in the "Healthy Fitness Zone" on all six areas of the FitnessGram assessment, by gender and grade level (e.g., in 2019, 24.4% of female 5th graders in California met all fitness standards).
Data Source: California Dept. of Education, Physical Fitness Testing Research Files (Jan. 2020).
Footnote: Years presented are the final year of a school year (e.g., 2018-19 is shown as 2019). The FitnessGram areas are: (1) aerobic capacity, (2) body composition, (3) abdominal strength, (4) trunk strength, (5) upper body strength, (6) flexibility. In 2011 new standards were applied to areas (1) and (2), so data presented here may not be comparable with data from 2010 and earlier. The notation S refers to data that have been suppressed because 20 or fewer students in that group were tested, 20 or fewer met all six standards, or the grade level is not offered. N/A means that data are not available.
