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Below you will find information related to the following topics.
- 2024-2025 Physical Fitness Assessment
- 2024-2025 Physical Fitness Assessment Overview Meetings
Texas Education Code (TEC), Section 38.101, requires that each school system annually assess the fitness level of all public-school students in grades 3–12 enrolled in a physical education course or any physical education substitute course or activity. School systems are required to submit the results of the physical fitness assessment to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) each school year, per TEC, Section 38.103. For the 2024-2025 school year, school systems may submit their data through one of three options, FitnessGram®, the Physical Fitness Assessment Initiative (PFAI) application, or another vendor collection tool.
Option 1: FitnessGram
TEA is pleased to announce that statewide site licenses from Greenlight Fitness for FitnessGram are available at no cost to qualifying schools for the 2024–2025 school year. Campus site licenses for the FitnessGram software are paid with funds allocated to the Physical Fitness Assessment Initiative by the Texas Legislature. School systems that select this option must renew their site license annually and report student physical fitness assessment data only through the FitnessGram software. Approval of the superintendent or their designee is required for this option.
Registration information for the FitnessGram license will be made available Tuesday, September 3, 2024. Please visit https://help.fitnessgram.net/texas/ for instructions and registration information. The last day to register for a FitnessGram site license for 2024–2025 is on or before 5 p.m. CST on Friday, May 30, 2025.
For questions related to the FitnessGram Campus site license, please contact Jessica Garcia with Greenlight Fitness by telephone at 1-866-211-2718 or by email at jessica@greenlightfitness.org.
For technical assistance questions, please call 1-866-211-2718 or email support@fitnessgram.net. You may also visit https://help.fitnessgram.net/texas/.
Option 2: PFAI Application
For school systems that choose to use the PFAI application, the PFAI tool will open for data collection in January 2025. To submit data, school systems are required to have a TEA Login (TEAL) account with access to the PFAI application. Information and resources have been posted to the Physical Fitness Assessment Initiative web page to assist school systems with a successful data submission.
Questions related to the PFAI application may be directed to TEA by telephone at (512) 463- 9581 or by email at pfaiprogramsupport@tea.texas.gov.
Option 3: Other Vendor Collection Tools
School systems are always free to choose other tools for the collection of physical fitness assessment data at local expense. Please note that with this option, the only way to successfully meet the requirement of reporting data to the agency is by submitting the data from the selected tool to TEA via the PFAI application. See the PFAI reporting option above for details.
Data Reporting Deadline
The deadline to submit fitness assessment results for the 2024-2025 school year is on or before 5 p.m. CST on Friday, June 13, 2025.
TEA will be hosting overview meetings with Greenlight Fitness to discuss and answer questions regarding the 2024-2025 physical fitness assessment. Greenlight Fitness will provide information about the registration process and give a demonstration on the FitnessGram platform. TEA will provide information about the physical fitness assessment initiative (PFAI) application for those districts that wish to continue using that platform. Please see below for session information. (There is a maximum of 300 participants per session, and sessions will not be recorded. All information will be the same for each session.)
After registering for a session, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
September 17, 2024, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqdOGqrjIqHNR5sigz4PAhFexAWapqHZrp
September 18, 2024, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcuuvqDotHtaXodcfmv5fKSTgTowUXnaG
September 23, 2024, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrdO-spzgqGdKI7LKunhMvZQadUssjTftq
Thank you for your commitment to serving Texas students.
Barney Fudge
Health and Physical Education Coordinator
Curriculum Standards and Student Support Division
barney.fudge@tea.texas.gov
Phone: 512-463-9581
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