Abstract: Effective coordination between national and local school physical education (PE) policies serves as an important institutional guarantee for advancing the overall reform of school physical education. Based on 85 national and local school PE policy documents issued since the 18th CPC National Congress, this study constructs a three-dimensional framework for analysis－“topic, text, effectiveness”－using LDA topic model, Doc2Vec model, and the PMC index model. It systematically examines the degree of policy coordination between central and local governments across the dimensions of policy “formulation, implementation, and evaluation”. This study demonstrates that in terms of topic alignment, local policies demonstrate strong responsiveness to the central government’s four major topic priorities. However, under the dual influence of institutional compliance and contextual adaptation, local documents exhibit a greater emphasis on "PE evaluation" and interpret certain topic connotations differently, resulting in a pattern of “similar yet distinct” emphasis. In terms of textual similarity, the degree of coordination between national and local policies displays a “gradient distribution－high, medium, and low”－under a three-level classification. Innovations in local school PE policies are mainly concentrated in the dimensions of practical implementation and support systems. Regarding effectiveness synergy, local policies remain highly aligned with national policies overall. Nevertheless, gaps persist in four aspects: policy focus, evaluation mechanisms, functional emphasis, and policy scope, reflecting a state of “high-level coordination with localized discrepancies”. Accordingly, we suggest establishing a sound mechanism for topic coordination between national and local policies, promoting the diffusion and upgrading of local policy innovations, and narrowing the gaps in policy effectiveness to comprehensively enhance the coordination efficacy of school PE policies across governance levels.