Physical Fitness

The following pages are specific to Kern County. However, for comparison purposes, you can also select the State or individual School Districts within the county from the same page.

Overall Summary Page

Gender Summary Pages Ethnicity Summary Pages
Data from Previous Years
Fitness data is available for 1998-99 through 2003-04

Understanding The Data:

Background information on California's Physical Fitness Testing
Definition of Healthy Fitness Zone or HFZ
Manual for teachers and staff involved in data collection

What's Happening Locally?

Let's Get Healthy: A Collaborative Approach to Child Fitness in Shafter, California

Why Shafter? View the Physical Fitness Test results for Richland School District.

Digging Deeper:

Evaluation Handbook for Physical Activity Programs: US Center for Disease Control

American Obesity Association: Childhood Obesity

California Center for Public Health Advocacy: An Epidemic - Overweight and Unfit Children By California Legislative District
See a Map!

Improving Children's Academic Performance, Health and Quality of Life: A Top Policy Commitment in Response to Children's Obesity and Health Crisis in California

President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports


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