Overweight Children by Gender and Grade Level
in San Mateo and Santa Clara County Assembly Districts (2001)

Assembly District

Location

Percent Overweight

Male

Female

Grade 5

Grade 7

Grade 9

12 (Leland Yee) Daly City, Colma, portions of western San Francisco

25.4

15.2

26.1

21.2

15.6

19 (Gene Mullin) Pacifica, San Bruno, San Mateo, South San Francisco, part of Daly City

29.5

18.5

23.3

27.5

21.3

20 (John Dura) Parts of San Jose and cities in Alameda County, including Fremont, Newark and Union City

28.4

16.4

22.7

23.6

21.3

21 (Joe Simitian) San Carlos, Redwood City, Atherton, Menlo Park, Woodside, Portola Valley, East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno and parts of San Jose

24.1

13.4

19.1

19.7

17.4

22 (Sally Lieber) Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and parts of San Jose and Santa Clara

31.3

19.4

24.0

22.1

31.9

23 (Manny Diaz) Parts of San Jose

33.6

19.6

29.8

27.5

21.1

24 (Rebecca Cohn) Campbell, Saratoga parts of San Jose and Santa Clara

27.6

16.2

22.2

22.4

21.3

27 (John Laird) Morgan Hill and parts of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties

27.5

17.2

23.9

23.3

20.1

28 (Simon Salinas) Gilroy, San Benito County and parts of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties

38.8

31.2

39.5

34.6

30.2

All Districts
in California

All Counties

31.8

21.0

28.2

27.0

23.6


Overweight = body composition measurement above the Healthy Fitness Zone standard.
Source: California Department of Education, 2001 California Physical Fitness Test, Analysis by California Center for Public Health Advocacy.

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