Investigating best practices of district-wide physical activity programmatic efforts in US schools– a mixed-methods approach

Table 1 Characteristics of the participating school districts (n = 23)

District demographic and size characteristics
Geographic location (%)
Urban	56
Suburban	39
Rural	4
Socio-economic status (%)
Low SES	39
Medium SES	48
High SES	13
District enrollment PRE K – 12 (mean, range)^a	115,695 (~ 2100 – ~ 650,000)
District size (%)^b
Small	9
Midsize	9
Large	82
Student-to-teacher ratio, academic class (mean, range)	16.31 (10.55–23.55)
Student-to-teacher ratio, PE class (mean, range)
Elementary	53.4 (17–60)
Middle	48.7 (25–60)
High	51.0 (15–60)
Student socio-demographics
Race (%)
Majority non-white	52
Ethnicity (%)
Majority Hispanic	22
Majority students eligible for free/reduced lunch (%)	83

^aThe district enrollment range values provided were rounded down to de-identify participating districts
^bFor the purpose of these analyses, districts size measure were determined using the National Center on Education Statistics classification [14] and modified based on our sample: districts with 1–5 schools were considered small; 6–19 schools were considered midsize and 20+ schools were considered large

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