Wellness-Related Fitness Testing

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Wellness-related fitness testing plays an important role in promoting the health and well-being of students across Virginia schools. These assessments help teachers monitor students’ physical fitness levels, identify areas for improvement, and encourage lifelong healthy habits. By focusing on components such as aerobic capacity, flexibility, strength, and endurance, physical education teachers support students in developing the knowledge and skills needed to stay active and make positive choices for their overall wellness.

#MoveVA Action Kit

The #MoveVA Action Kit represents a strategic, statewide commitment to the long-term health and well-being of Virginia's students. Established through Executive Order 55 (2025), which created the Presidential Fitness Test Task Force, this initiative marks Virginia's move toward comprehensive fitness assessment and aims to reimplement the Presidential Fitness Test in all public-school divisions by July 2027.

This initiative is designed to help students understand the process and cycle of fitness education: building knowledge of activity and fitness concepts, measuring performance, analyzing data, setting personal goals, designing fitness plans, monitoring activities, reassessing, and modifying their plans.

The #MoveVA program provides guidance to divisions to provide comprehensive, health-related physical fitness assessments aligned to Virginia's K-12 Physical Education Standards of Learning. It aims to educate students, families, and educators about the components of a healthy lifestyle while providing meaningful data to track student fitness across the Commonwealth.

Wellness-Related Fitness Resources

In response to Executive Order 55 (2025), the Virginia Department of Education established the Presidential Fitness Test Task Force to guide implementation of fitness assessment across the Commonwealth's public schools. The resources on this page support school divisions and physical education teachers in that work. They reflect Virginia's commitment to using fitness assessment as a tool for student growth, not as a measure of pass or fail. Grounded in the 2022 Physical Education Standards of Learning and the "Every Student Stronger" vision, these materials provide practical guidance on assessment selection, meaningful use of fitness data, and developing positive fitness testing opportunities for all students.

Every Student Stronger

A student-centered approach to fitness assessment: where growth is the headline and every starting point is valid.

The Core Idea: Make personal improvement, not a single score, the primary measure of student fitness. Give students genuine agency over their fitness journey.

What is Measured: Not just where students are, but whether they are growing; as movers, thinkers, goal-setters, and as members of a community that show up and move together.

The Wellness Fitness Summary Teacher Report document gives quick snapshots of overall school results within the Healthy Fitness Zone. Together, these forms make it simple to organize data, celebrate student growth, and support a culture of health and wellness in your program. Now available by school level:

The Cumulative Wellness-Related Fitness Record helps the teacher and school division monitor each student’s progress over time in key areas such as aerobic capacity, flexibility, strength, and endurance.