Fitness Tests Show PUSD Students Outshine Their Peers Statewide

Fewer than one in five fifth graders in the Piedmont Unified School District were overweight last school year, according to test results released Wednesday by the state Department of Education. 

Statewide, one out of three fifth graders who took the physical fitness test were placed in the "needs improvement" category for the body composition portion of the assessment. 

The annual test measures physical fitness in six categories: aerobic capacity, body composition, abdominal strength, trunk extensor strength, upper body strength, and flexibility. 

Twenty-six percent of the state's fifth graders, 32 percent of seventh graders and 37 percent of ninth graders scored in the "Healthy Fitness Zone" for all six areas, according to a press release from the California Department of Education. 

In PUSD, 52.4 percent of fifth graders, 41.7 percent of seventh graders and 44.3 percent of ninth graders scored in the "Healthy Fitness Zone" for all six areas. 

You may see the complete test results for PUSD here.

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