The Community of Madrid will allocate €1.24 billion to improve climate control, energy efficiency, and accessibility in nearly 1,400 public educational centres. The plan will benefit over one million students, including those in Móstoles.
The Community of Madrid will invest €1.24 billion in enhancing climate control, energy efficiency, and accessibility in nearly 1,400 public educational centres in the region, as announced this Monday by the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, during a visit to the CEIPSO Andrea Casamayor in Paracuellos del Jarama, coinciding with the start of the 2026/2027 school year.
The plan, which according to estimates will benefit over one million students, will also reach students in Móstoles, one of the municipalities with the highest number of educational centres in the region. This measure comes after numerous centres reported temperatures exceeding 27 degrees in June last year, prompting criticism from family associations, unions, and opposition parties, who called for more measures to combat the heat.
The actions will be coordinated through the Departments of Education, Science and Universities and Presidency, Justice and Local Administration, which will take on different parts of the programme to cover both the centres owned by the regional government and those whose maintenance will later depend on the municipalities.
Among the planned improvements are the enhancement of the thermal envelope of buildings, the installation of photovoltaic panels, solar systems for hot water production, the renovation of heating installations, and the replacement of lighting with more energy-efficient models. The aim is to achieve more efficient centres that can better withstand episodes of extreme temperatures.
Accessibility will be another focus of the programme, with the installation of elevators and the gradual removal of architectural barriers in buildings that still present difficulties for students, teachers, or families with mobility issues.
Díaz Ayuso has described the programme as a "historic investment" and has defended the need to carry out these actions in light of summers that, as she pointed out, begin earlier while high temperatures last longer.
Historic investment
The plan is being launched after a previous school year marked by complaints from the educational community, which reported situations where thermometers reached much higher values than the 27 degrees recorded in many centres during June.
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