According to Rec Management’s 2025 State of the Industry Report, the vast majority of school respondents—98.3%—currently offer
programming of some kind at their facilities, up from 92.3% in 2024.
Youth sports programs were the most common program offering for school respondents, with 80.2% of school respondents indicating that they currently host youth sports programs. This compares with 49.2% of non-school respondents offering youth sports.
The next most common programs for school respondents in 2025 include: educational programs (69.4% of school respondents said they host educational programming), fitness programs (52.1%), sports tournaments and races (50.4%), individual sports activities like running clubs (43.8%), holiday events and other special events (38.8%), performing arts programs (38%), sport training like golf instruction or tennis lessons (37.2%), day camps and summer camps (35.5%), and teen programming (33.9%).
Respondents from schools and school districts were the least likely in 2025 to be planning to add programs at their facilities over the next few years. Just 12.5% of school respondents were planning to add programming, compared with 26.3% of non-school respondents. This is down from 2024, when 19.2% of school respondents had plans to add programs.
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