Table 1.

States with Mandated Fitness Testing

States	Grades Tested	Publicly Available	Fitnessgram	Data available and comments
Alabama https://www.alsde.edu/sec/isvcs/hpe/pages/home.aspx	2‐12			Alabama Physical Fitness Assessment
California Cde.ca.gov	5/7/9	x	x	Summary reports available by total, sex, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, county
Connecticut Portal.ct.gov/SED/Physical‐Education http://edsight.ct.gov/SASPortal/main.do	4/6/8/10	x	§	Summary reports available by total, district, school
Delaware Doe.k12.de.us	4/7/9/10†	x	x	Summary reports by total, by sex, includes number of students
Georgia Gadoe.org	1‐12 ‡	x	x	Summary data by sex‐ only for aerobic capacity (grades 4‐12) and body composition (grades 1‐12) Individual data by school, district, sex (no grade level)
Illinois Isbe.net	5/7/10	x	x	Summary reports available as well as individual school‐level data
Mississippi https://www.mdek12.org	5/HS			No particular assessment tool required
Missouri Dese.mo.gov	5/7/9	x	x	Raw school‐level data available (N of students not available)
North Carolina Dpi.nc.gov	1‐9			No particular assessment tool required
Ohio Education.ohio.gov	5/8/12			No particular assessment tool required
South Carolina Scaledown.org/Fitnessgram	2/4/8	x	x	Summary data available by sex and total
Tennessee tn.gov	4/6/8/9			Fitness assessment using the PACER.
Texas Tea.texas.gov	3‐12	x	x	Summary data and individual school‐level data include sex, total students tested
Vermont Education.vermont.gov	4/7/9		x	Vermont Physical Education Assessment began in 2018‐2019
Virginia Doe.virginia.gov	4‐12	x	x	Summary data available includes sex, total tested
West Virginia Wvde.us	4‐12	x	x	School‐level data available with N's

^† Grades 9/10 together.

^‡ Grades 1‐3 assessments are for practice only except for body composition. All fitness assessments begin in grade 4.

^§ Uses Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment; 4 components; criterion‐referenced standards for HFZ.