Adapting school systems to rising temperatures is essential to safeguard students’ future well-being and ability to learn. Using granular climate projections from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and school location data from the 2024 OECD ad-hoc survey on primary schools, this technical paper develops a methodology to assess the number of schools and students at risk of rising temperatures in 2050 across 13 OECD countries and economies. It accompanies a policy brief that summarises the results and discusses its policy implications: What are the likely impacts of rising temperatures on students and how are countries adapting?
