Resource Library

School facilities and grounds are integral components of public infrastructure that provide students with space to learn, socialize, and exercise. 

This study examines the impact of integrating physical activity with elementary curricula on fluid intelligence and academic achievement.

This study is the first to explore the association between childhood aerobic fitness and basal ganglia structure and function.

Academic achievement based on the idea that health and physical fitness have an impact on the ability to achieve academically. Because of the recent pressures of No Child Left Behind, many schools have opted to limit the amount of time students spend in physical education classes and recess. 

The study’s objective was to investigate whether aerobic fitness and obesity in school children are associated with standardized test performance.

The goal was to analyze the physical fitness, self-concept, attitudes toward physical education, and academic achievement of Turkish elementary school children by socioeconomic status.

This study examined the associations between indicators of health-related physical fitness (cardiovascular fitness and body mass index) and academic performance (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills).

In many communities, where safe places to play are few and far between, schools offer a variety of recreational facilities – from gymnasiums and running tracks to sports fields and playgrounds – to meet residents’ needs. 

In this paper, the 21st Century School Fund and the Center for Cities and Schools at the University of California Berkeley provide a conceptual frame for the joint use of PK-12 public schools. 

A survey of the 50-states and laws and statutes that address community use of schools.

In addition to the primary responsibility of school districts to provide high quality teaching and learning, schools are increasingly being called on to help create and sustain active, healthy communities and vibrant neighborhoods. 

The following optional policy is for use by districts that elect to establish formal agreements with public or private entities to jointly use either school facilities or community facilities in order to share costs and risk.

For many reasons, renovating schools located near the families they serve is a much better option than constructing a new school on the outskirts of a community. 

The Tennessee Recreation Parks and Association created a joint use finder to explore the different types of agreements across the state. Agreements range from open use, written use agreements, verbal use agreements, policy.

This report gives some background information on Safe Routes to School and details challenges and opportunities in program implementation. 

This study examines the socio-demographic and environmental influences on a child’s mode of travel between home and school in a mid-sized Canadian city.

This is a systematic review of 38 articles that investigate the environmental (physical, economic, socio-cultural and political) correlates of active transportation (AT) among young people aged 5-18 years.

This study investigates the characteristics of student travel behaviors before the implementation of SRTS program and identifies the influential factors affecting the number of children to walk or bike to school.

This brief summarizes research on active transport to school, physical activity levels and health outcomes.

This article suggests that public policies, informed by research, that support population-level approaches to increase physical activity, is needed to increase physical activity opportunities to racial/ethnic minority communities.