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SDLA Compliance Resource

Provide Each Tested Student Individual PFT Results

A private, understandable results handoff that supports student reflection and family understanding without grading, ranking, diagnosing, or publicly identifying pupils.

  • Physical Fitness Test
  • Student Results
  • Privacy
Date(s)After each pupil completes all or part of the PFT
Applies toEach pupil who completes all or part of the PFT; local practice may also provide results to parents/guardians

In Plain Language: Give the pupil individual results orally or in writing after completion, using a private and understandable method. Explain the fitness areas and appropriate next steps without shame or unsupported health conclusions.

Why this matters

Individual feedback is the student-facing purpose of the PFT. Delayed, public, or unexplained results can undermine that purpose and create privacy or equity concerns.

Primary ownership

Primary owner: administering PE/adapted PE staff under the PFT coordinator. Handoff partners: student, parent/guardian, special education/504, health staff when appropriate, and records/data staff.

From a completed PFT to a private, understandable result: the SDLA ITO workflow

Results go to the pupil privately, with no grading, ranking, or unsupported health conclusions. This SDLA ITO (Input, Transformation, Output) graphic shows how each pupil's PFT component results and identity records become the validated record, the delivery record, and the questions and corrections log.

SDLA ITO: eleven steps from each pupil's PFT component results and identity records, through validation, an accessible explanation, and private delivery, to the validated record, the delivery record, and the questions and corrections log.
Read down each column, then move to the next: Input identifies what to collect; Transformation covers validation, an accessible explanation, and private delivery; Output covers the validated record, the delivery record, and the questions and corrections log. Provide results after each pupil completes all or part of the PFT.

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Operational workflow

  1. Validate pupil identity and component results before communication.
  2. Prepare an accessible explanation of completed areas, missing components, and what the result means.
  3. Deliver privately after completion; provide language/disability access and a question route.
  4. Correct errors and document delivery under the local record process.

Implementation pathway

Validate
Explain
Deliver privately
Answer/correct
Retain proof

Evidence to retain

  • Validated individual record
  • Accessible result format
  • Delivery date/method
  • Questions/corrections
  • Privacy-compliant retention

Official guidance and help

Source review completed August 30, 2026. Verify current federal and California requirements, CDE instructions, local policy, pupil-level records, and live reporting-system status before acting.