We found a significant association between students´
position and both school performance and absence.
Accordingly, students who sit far from the board had
lower school performance (Figure 1A) and higher
percentage of absence (Figure 1B); the best
performances (grade and presence) were more frequent
for students who sit at the front position (Figure 1).
From the questionnaire, only a few students (9.60 %;
41 students) did not choose a fixed seat at the school
and were not considered in this survey. The others
(90.4%; 386) are shown in Figure 2 (contrasting
questions 1 and 2).Students’ reason to choose a seat
was associated with seat position. Students sitting in the
front position mostly declared motivation for learning as a
main reason to choose a seat; on the other hand,
friendship was most important for those at the middle
rows and the back position was associated to social