California Fitness Test

Letter to hse test centers feb2020 added 20 jul 2020 this is a letter that was sent to all california testing centers reminding them that historical records are the property of the state.

California fitness test. This site is for collecting annual student pft data from each local educational agency lea. The main goal of the test is to help students in starting life long habits of regular physical activity. Students in grades five seven and nine take the fitness test. By law california education code section 60800 all public local educational agencies in california are required to administer the physical fitness test pft annually to all students in grades five seven and nine.

An lea is a school district county office of education or charter school that is. Currently state law requires california schools to give all fifth seventh and ninth graders the physical fitness test which is designed to measure aerobic capacity abdominal strength and. The pft provides information that can be used by 1 students to assess levels of health related fitness and to plan personal fitness programs. California has required that schools administer a physical fitness test since 1996 and the tests had been encouraged by the federal government well before that.

Welcome to the california physical fitness test pft web site supported by the sacramento county office of education scoe the current state pft contractor. 2 teachers to design the. The physical fitness test pft for students in california schools is the fitnessgram. The pft administered is modeled after and tests for the same abilities as those required of peace officer cadets to graduate from the academy.

The proposal comes as california s annual reports of the fitness test since the 2014 2015 school year show a decline in the percentage of students scoring healthy. Since 1996 california education code ec section 60800 has required that each local educational agency lea administer a state designated physical fitness test pft to all students in grades five seven and nine during the month of february march april or may the governing board of each lea maintaining grades five seven or nine shall administer to each student in those grades the pft. The test has six parts that show a level of fitness that offer a degree of defense.