Andrew McGrath is a physical education teacher at Cedar Point Elementary School in Bristow, as well as a graduate student at George Mason University studying overweight and obesity percentages among elementary school students. McGrath and the school have created Healthy Families Night, a free event to provide more information on health and well-being, to be held Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

What have you found in your studies at GMU?

Prince William County has an alarmingly high percentage of youth [ages 2-18] who are either at risk of becoming overweight, are overweight, or are obese. Here at Cedar Point ES, out of the 122 fifth-graders that I assessed, 26.6 percent fell into that same category.