Abstract
Previous studies on the detrimental impact of chronic external noise
upon the academic performance of school children were normally based
on sampled school sites, and the results were often limited to a
specific range of areas. The aim of this paper is to investigate
the relationships between environmental noise levels of secondary
schools in Greater London and a set of academic achievement factors,
and also, to determine the noise exposure of secondary schools. Four
academic achievement indicators were considered and five noise indicators
were obtained after processing noise map data. It has been shown
that the environmental noise levels of secondary schools in Greater
London have almost no significant relationships with those academic
achievement indicators. As expected, the secondary schools in Inner
London are noisier than those in Outer London. The average difference
is calculated as 2 dBA.
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