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 under the Cooper name. CCS publishes percentile rows and adds six named bands (Superior, Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, Very Poor).

Page type
Age/sex scoring tables with an undisclosed derivation
Source document
CCS Cooper Standards (reference page). CCS = Critical Concepts and Strategies, LLC. Original PDF at ccstest.com.
Underlying data
Not identified by CCS. Four event grids agree with selected rows of the 2013 Cooper monograph, but the 1.5-mile grid materially differs and is cited to CCS directly.
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
Not disclosed in the scoring document
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.

CategoryPercentile rangeContains 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.

TestWhat it measuresUnit
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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