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After completing the tests, questionnaires were distributed to evaluate the students\u2019 assessment of each set of environmental conditions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Findings<\/jats:title>On-site measurements of humidity and carbon dioxide levels stress the importance of ensuring good natural ventilation through open doors and windows, independently of whether the air-conditioning system is operated or not. Also, the authors find that the students\u2019 self-assessment regarding the inner environmental conditions for each studied set was entirely accurate, with set D3 being assessed as the worst. The U-K test scores for each environmental set did not show statistically significant differences, which means that, in the studied conditions, the student\u2019s performance in the tests was not affected by the inner environmental conditions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Practical implications<\/jats:title>There is a direct relationship between the building\u2019s indoor conditions and an occupant\u2019s health. Factors such as poor maintenance, bad indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and building age will worsen the building\u2019s condition and negatively impact the occupant\u2019s health. Educational buildings with poor IEQ can reduce the concentration and performance of occupants.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Social implications<\/jats:title>School is an important place to help students grow in their various capabilities. They spend approximately 30% of their daily lives in schools for their educational activities. Since most of their activities are performed indoors, indoor environmental attributes, such as light, heat, air and sound, should be maintained as required. In general, schools are not thermally comfortable. The extreme thermal environment of classrooms affects students\u2019 concentration. Thermal discomfort may also cause irritation. In addition to reduced concentration, such an environment could also cause tiredness, sluggishness and health problem.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Originality\/value<\/jats:title>Despite the importance of the issue, scientific investigations of the correlations between students\u2019 performance and the quality of scholar buildings\u2019 inner environmental conditions are still relatively recent. 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