Positive Impact on US Schools

Creating a Positive Impact on American Health through our Nation’s Schools

• Our schools can make an enormous, positive impact on the health of this nation.
• Every school day, 52 million young people attend more than 125,000 public and private Elementary and Secondary schools across America.
• Schools are the ideal setting to educate and establish healthy lifestyle habits from Kindergarten to high school.
• Our goal is to make the Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children™ available to every K-6 Grade teacher and student in America:
  • 95,615 Public Elementary and Secondary Schools¹
  • 29,273 Private Elementary and Secondary Schools¹
  • 1.5 Million Home-Schooled Students²
  • 6.8 Million Teachers in the United States
  • 37.9 Million Students in K-6 Grades³

¹http://www.census.gov/Press Release

²Lloyd, Janice, Gannett News Service (January 5, 2008).
Home-schooling numbers rise. Burlington Free Press.

³Bureau, U. C. (2009). The 2009 Statistical Abstract.
Retrieved from National Data Book