Table 12. Percent of public elementary schools indicating that recess was scheduled at the school, and percentage distribution reporting the number of days per week, times per day, and minutes per day of scheduled recess, by elementary grade level: 2005

Table 12. Percent of public elementary schools indicating that recess was scheduled at the school, and percentage distribution reporting the number of days per week, times per day, and minutes per day of scheduled recess, by elementary grade level: 2005
Recess schedule	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5	Grade 6
Any scheduled recess	93	93	92	91	91	87
Days per week
None	7	7	8	9	9	13
1 to 4 days	5	5	5	6	7	4
5 days	88	88	87	85	83	83
Times per day
None	7	7	8	9	9	13
Once	55	56	59	64	66	58
Twice	28	27	25	22	21	24
Three or more times	10	10	8	5	4	5
Minutes per day
None	7	7	8	9	9	13
1 to 15 minutes	14	14	15	17	18	17
16 to 20 minutes	18	18	20	22	23	21
21 to 30 minutes	33	34	33	33	32	28
More than 30 minutes	27	26	25	20	19	21
NOTE: Respondents were asked to provide information for each grade that was considered elementary at the school, typically grades 1 through 5 or 6. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS), "Foods and Physical Activity in Public Elementary Schools: 2005," FRSS 87, 2005.