2024-25 Physical Fitness Test

Please continue to assess the PFT while considering options that are away from the bare dirt. Pacers and mile runs can be done indoors or on grass.

The 2024-25 physical fitness test (PFT) is to be administered between February 1 and May 31, 2025, in accordance with the 2021–22 changes noted below.

Administration and data reporting requirements of the PFT:

• Administration

  • Body Composition component is no longer required
  • The reporting of student performance using the Healthy Fitness Zones are not required
• Reporting
• Schools are not required to collect or use height and weight, including body mass index, for data reporting
• Schools are not required to collect or use gender for data reporting
• Schools are not required to collect or use age for data reporting
• Student participation (by component, by grade) shall be reported in the LEA’s annual School Accountability Report Card (SARC)

Please note: access to input scores in Aeries will be available when the administration window opens. If you have issues with accessing the test, please submit a Help Desk ticket to the Aeries team.

• Aerobic Capacity

• Abdominal Strength and Endurance

• Trunk Extensor Strength and Flexibility

• Upper Body Strength and Flexibility

• Flexibility

• California has removed the body composition fitness item, information related to calculating a student’s body mass index will no longer be collected.

Requirements:

• All students in grades 5, 7, & 9 will be assessed (unless exemption on file)

• Information will be input in Aeries

• Test must be administered during the four month window of February - May.

The Physical Fitness test (PFT) needs to be administered to all 5th, 7th and 9th grade students between Feb 1st and May 31st, 2025. The results for the test will be recorded into Aeries.

Training for how to input the results into Aeries is now available. Teachers can access the recordings by clicking on the links below.

The following Physical Fitness Test (PFT) resources have been updated and are posted on the PFT resources web page at https://pftdata.org/resources.aspx.

• PFT Coordinators Manual
• PFT Coordinator Resources

• PFT Data Collection Form
• PFT Fitness Areas and Equipment
• PFT Fact Sheet (translations)
• Talking to Educators PPT - PFT
• PFT Parent Guides to Understanding (translated into the top 7 languages)

Aeries input Videos

• Entering info into Aeries
• Print Roster from Aeries

Audio Files of Cadences

• Push Ups
• Curl Ups

PFT Videos

• Push Up Cadence
• Push Up (How To)
• Curl Up Cadence
• Curl Up (How To)
• Trunk Lift (How To)
• Pacer Video (How To)
• Pacer Video Cadence
• Link to ALL Videos (CDE)

• The resources for parent: The California Physical Fitness Test and FITNESSGRAM® documents are available on the California Department of Education (CDE) Parent Guide to Understanding web page

• The information about PFT assessment is available on the PFT Fact Sheet web page