2025-26 Annual Physical Fitness Assessment Reporting

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 2025-26 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 for FitnessGram, provided by Greenlight Fitness, are available at no cost to qualifying schools for the 2025–26 school year. Campus site licenses for the FitnessGram software are funded with allocations from the Texas Legislature’s Physical Fitness Assessment Initiative. 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 is required for this option.

Registration information for the FitnessGram license will be made available on Tuesday, September 2, 2025. Please visit the FitnessGram Support web page for instructions and registration information. The last day to register for a FitnessGram site license for 2025–26 is on or before Friday, May 29, 2026, 5:00 p.m. Central.

For questions related to the FitnessGram campus site license, please call 1-800-517-9135 or email support@fitnessgram.net. You can also visit the FitnessGram Support web page.

Option 2: PFAI Application

For school systems that choose to use the PFAI application, the PFAI tool will open for data collection in January 2026. 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.

Option 3: Other Vendor Collection Tools

School systems are always free to choose other tools for collecting 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 through the PFAI application to TEA. See the PFAI reporting option above for details.

Data Reporting Deadline

The deadline to submit fitness assessment results for the 2025-26 school year is on or before Friday, June 12, 2026, 5:00 p.m. Central.