Clean Air Schools

The IQAir Clean Air Schools program helps protect students, teachers, and staff from poor indoor air quality and airborne risks in classrooms and school facilities.

Healthy Schools – Healthy Students

Today, it’s more important than ever to improve indoor air quality across classrooms and shared spaces to support health, safety, and learning.

IQAir Clean Air Schools helps schools evaluate, improve, and verify indoor air quality across the facility. IQAir high-efficiency panel filtration technology achieves high efficiency in both filtration and energy use beyond typical MERV 13 requirements.

The program is built around a benchmark of indoor air that’s over 90% cleaner than outdoors, supported by verification and monitoring.

HyperHEPA Filtration Excellence

The Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV) system is a common shorthand for assessing how effectively air filters can capture airborne particles. Most schools are only required to reach MERV 13 filtration efficiency. But IQAir NanoMax filters provide HyperHEPA filtration technology, which surpasses MERV 16 standards with a pressure drop comparable to MERV 8 filters.

MERV 13 only filters about 50% of ultrafine particles (UFPs), including airborne viruses. IQAir high-efficiency panel filters remove up to 95% of UFPs like viruses as well as other harmful indoor air pollutants.

MERV 13 systems must also be operated around the clock with 100% ventilation, consuming large amounts of energy and reducing energy efficiency. IQAir high-efficiency panel filtration features high efficiency and low filter pressure drops to help reduce strain on HVAC systems and support energy-efficiency goals without relying on round-the-clock operation.

Why IQAir Clean Air Schools?

IQAir’s mission is to empower the world to breathe cleaner air—making schools safer and healthier is central to that work.

With IQAir Clean Air Schools, our Air Quality Experts help you engineer every element of your school for optimal air quality. Once your school meets strict air quality standards, you can display a prominent placard that signals to students, teachers, parents, and administrators your school’s commitment to cleaner indoor air.

What’s included in Clean Air Schools?

Our air quality expertise comes from experience. From founding the modern air filtration industry in 1963 to leading today’s air quality data revolution, IQAir has remained at the forefront of air quality solutions for over 60 years.

Our services include:

• On-Site Air Quality Evaluations
• Installation Services
• Air Quality Verification and Monitoring
• Customized Clean Air Solutions
• Maintenance and Renewal

Help with grant funding

The IQAir Foundation may be able to help your school secure the funding needed for clean air technology.

If your school does qualify for funding, we can help you every step of the way. We provide turn-key project administration through multiple project phases, including community outreach, fundraising, on-site assessments, installation and verification, school staff training, and project reporting.

The IQAir Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, strives for environmental justice by working with schools, community groups, and allied organizations to provide air filtration solutions to those who need it most in disadvantaged and underserved communities. We aim to bring air filtration to at least 50,000 more schoolchildren every year, while expanding our impact to communities in regions like Africa and Latin America.

For more information, contact us at info@iqairfoundation.org or call us at 866-760-8180.