CCS Cooper Standards (Law Enforcement)

Derived scoring overlay, not an independent normative battery.

CCS stands for Critical Concepts and Strategies, LLC, the test-prep company behind ccstest.com. It hosts a five-test law-enforcement scoring sheet built directly on the Cooper Institute 2013 monograph. The raw scores come from Cooper's percentile tables; CCS adds six named bands (Superior, Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, Very Poor).

Page type: Derived scoring overlay built on the Cooper Institute 2013 monograph
Source document: CCS Cooper Standards (reference page). CCS = Critical Concepts and Strategies, LLC. Original PDF at ccstest.com.
Underlying data: Cooper Institute 2013 monograph: percentile tables by age & sex, per test
Tests: 5: 1-minute push-ups, 1-minute sit-ups, 1.5-mile run, 300m run, vertical jump (no sit-and-reach, no bench press)
Population: Applied to law enforcement candidates; the underlying Cooper charts draw from Cooper Clinic patients and Law Enforcement Studies cohorts
Scoring: Category-based. Each test yields one of six named bands.

Category bands

CCS uses the same six bands for every event, age bracket, and sex. Only the raw score changes by table.

Category	Percentile range	Contains hosted P-value
Superior	≥95	P95
Excellent	80-94	(none)
Good	60-79	P75
Fair	40-59	P50
Poor	20-39	P25
Very Poor	<20	P5

The bands cover the full percentile range without gaps. On this site, P5/P25/P50/P75/P95 land in Very Poor/Poor/Fair/Good/Superior respectively.

Tests in the CCS battery

All five CCS tests have hosted norm pages here.

Test	What it measures	Unit
1-Minute Push-Ups	Upper-body muscular endurance	reps
1-Minute Sit-Ups	Core muscular endurance	reps
1.5-Mile Run	Aerobic endurance	min
300m Run	Anaerobic power	sec
Vertical Jump	Explosive leg power	inches

How hard is this? Cut-off values, age 20-29

The values below show our hosted percentile anchors for a male candidate aged 20-29. Treat them as representative scores inside each band, not exact band edges.

Event	Very Poor (P5)	Poor (P25)	Fair (P50)	Good (P75)	Superior (P95)
1-Min Push-Ups (reps)	13	24	33	44	62
1-Min Sit-Ups (reps)	27	35	40	46	55
1.5-Mile Run (min)	16:46	13:25	11:58	10:34	9:10
300m Run (sec)	81.3	64	56	51	46
Vertical Jump (inches)	13.6	18	20.5	23	26.5

For the two timed events (1.5-mile run and 300m run), lower is better. The "Superior" column shows the fastest cut-off, "Very Poor" the slowest.

Female candidates, age 20-29

Event	Very Poor (P5)	Poor (P25)	Fair (P50)	Good (P75)	Superior (P95)
1-Min Push-Ups (reps)	6	11	18	27	42
1-Min Sit-Ups (reps)	18	28	35	42	51
1.5-Mile Run (min)	21:05	16:43	14:15	12:07	10:20
300m Run (sec)	106.7	76	64	61	54.3
Vertical Jump (inches)	11.4	13	15.2	17	18.8

Other age brackets map the same way: P5/P25/P50/P75/P95 fall in Very Poor/Poor/Fair/Good/Superior.

Why CCS is not independent data

The CCS document is a scoring convention, not a separate dataset. Its cut-off values match the Cooper tables; CCS mainly adds the named bands and fixes the battery at five events.

Other academies use different subsets and scoring systems, but the underlying source is still the same Cooper monograph.

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