Table 2.

Academic rankings for New York City public school students in grades 6–8, by level of fitness change from the previous year, 2006–11

	Grade 6			Grade 7			Grade 8
	N	Mean	Standard Deviation (SD)	N	Mean	(SD)	N	Mean	(SD)
Girls (N=42,718)^a
Change in Fitness^b
Substantial Increase^c	6089	56.74	27.40	8138	56.96	27.36	6918	56.81	27.50
Moderate Increase	2595	59.01	27.45	5306	59.51	27.49	5304	59.81	27.38
No/small change	6260	59.13	27.92	16081	60.03	27.72	17934	60.66	27.83
Moderate Decrease	2274	56.48	27.88	4942	56.84	27.36	5293	57.24	27.73
Substantial Decrease	4844	54.56	27.81	7724	52.29	27.36	7229	53.02	27.51

Boys (N=40,393)^a
Change in Fitness^b
Substantial Increase^c	5430	52.37	27.93	7570	53.95	28.37	6936	52.90	28.09
Moderate Increase	2468	54.18	27.75	5074	55.12	28.48	5229	53.37	28.36
No/small change	6387	54.89	28.30	15110	55.13	28.38	16773	54.42	28.69
Moderate Decrease	2228	53.02	28.69	4781	53.16	28.31	4884	52.03	27.90
Substantial Decrease	4393	52.94	28.47	7125	49.42	28.00	6548	48.51	28.30

SD=standard deviation

Sum of students does not equal row or column totals because student can appear in each group more than once.

T-tests comparing means between boys and girls for each fitness category and grade were significant (all p<0.001).

Substantial Increase: >20 percentile point increase, moderate increase: 10–20 percentile point increase, moderate decrease: 10–20 percentile point decrease, substantial decrease: >20 percentile point decrease