Decades of reports and research have documented aging educational facilities and repair needs for P-12 and higher edu- cation. In higher education, expenditures on maintenance and operations for facilities typically lag behind those of instruction and funding for facilities has not kept up with need. In P-12 settings, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office, 63% of students in the U.S. attend schools where at least one building component is in need of extensive repair, overhaul, replacement, or contains environmentally substandard condi- tions. This equates to over 14 million students in the U.S. attending schools with substandard classroom indoor environmental quality conditions. Across the educational continuum, failure to maintain adequate facilities may leave students vulnerable to academic under- performance. For adult students who spend many hours of foundational learning in lecture settings, a substandard environment may contribute to the presence of task-irrelevant stimuli that interferes with the acquisition and retention of knowledge. Hypotheses related to effects of built indoor environment across a range of student age and developmental levels on student performance during reading, listening, and other tasks should be tested in future research.