Aguilar Carrasco, María TeresaLópez Lovillo, Remedios MaríaSuárez, RafaelLeón-Rodríguez, Ángel Luis2025-05-132025-05-132025Aguilar Carrasco, M.T., López Lovillo, R.M., Suárez, R. y León-Rodríguez, Á.L. (2025). Ventilation Strategies to Ensure Thermal Comfort for Users in School Buildings: A Critical Review. Applied Sciences, 15 (10), 5449. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15105449.2076-3417https://hdl.handle.net/11441/172634People spend most of their time indoors, where air quality is crucial to health. In this context, this study conducts a critical review of ventilation strategies in schools to ensure air quality, as well as to guarantee students’ thermal comfort. Based on a bibliographical review, strategies from previous studies are identified and evaluated in order to determine their advantages. After a detailed search, a total of 19 articles were selected, which provides a thorough analysis of the ventilation strategies in school buildings considering thermal comfort. The identified strategies were categorized into natural, mechanical, and hybrid types. The results reveal a prevalence of natural ventilation, which accounts for over 50% of strategies in all climates. Mechanical ventilation is less common and is applicable to around 30% of cases. Hybrid strategies, combining natural and mechanical ventilation, are the least used and only appear in oceanic climates, with a usage rate of 20%. Most studies highlight the lack of air conditioning in many schools, making adequate thermal stress management through ventilation crucial. The results analyzed clearly show a lack of studies with optimal results whose ventilation strategies can be replicated in other similar educational buildings, ensuring thermal comfort and air quality.application/pdf24 p.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ventilationthermal comfortschoolstrategyindoor air qualityinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.3390/app15105449