First AC was in college. None in any of the NYC schools and none in the the two Houston Texas area schools I was in. And yes in the summer it was miserable.

No A/C through college.

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Did you have air conditioning at school from K-12?

Nope, and I graduated high school in 1972.

We had windows. They were open in the summer and closed in the winter. Same for church for that matter.

I didn't have Air until the 10th grade. Even then it was only a few classes .

Never, but that was during the 50s and 60s, in Northwest Pennsylvania. From September till the first week in June, there probably weren’t 10 days that would’ve required air-conditioning anyway.

All schooling was in Texas and the only AC was 9–12 high school.

Didn’t have AC in the home until I was out of school. Swamp coolers were the thing. Seems as though my room was the hottest. I remember saving up for a window insert fan for my bedroom.

Remember staying at my grandparents house in Ranger, Tx one summer. The swamp cooler didn’t blow any air into our room so we would crawl out the window which was on the front porch and lay outside and feed the mosquitoes.

I grew up in the rural-suburbs and my county district home schools had AC. The two years that I was forced to attend far away schools downtown I did not have AC. The old schools were a relic of the former city school system.
None of the schools were the fanciful open floor plans they build now.

Born and raise in NYC hood. Went to catholic elementary school and then vocational high school. None had A/C back in the day.
Use to put crayon on the radiators and that would tee off the nuns.

No AC in any class until the 9th grade; and only then if I had class in that one small building which was built in the early '70s. Other classes were in buildings built as far back as 1927 to about early 1960s. No AC in the old buildings.

No A/C grade school, high school and some college buildings. Grade school was parochial, so white shirts, navy blue slacks and tie. Since it was Labor Day to Memorial Day in those days, North St. Louis County, it could get warm, but that's the way it was.

I have had it growing up my entire life, fortunately. In South Florida it is a necessity.

We had what were giant evaporative coolers while growing up in Arizona. None for HS here in Michigan.

Not until high school. It didnt work very well and none of the windows opened.