Practical & Durable School Flooring
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School Flooring for Primary & High Schools
What's the best flooring for schools? It needs to survive constant traffic while supporting a healthy learning environment. From classrooms to corridors, Forbo's school flooring, including linoleum and vinyl options, stands up to daily use for every age group.
Flooring for Busy Learning Environments
Schools are high-traffic environments where floors need to perform day after day, year after year. From corridors and classrooms to science labs and gyms, flooring must balance durability, acoustics, hygiene, and design flexibility.
Considerations for Primary & High School flooring:
- High durability: Surfaces that are quick to clean and reduce long-term costs.
- Acoustic comfort: Minimise noise from footsteps and furniture movement to improve concentration.
- Low maintenance: Surfaces that are quick to clean and reduce long-term costs.
- Design flexibility: Colours and patterns that enhance the learning environment and support school identity.
Recommended flooring solutions
- Marmoleum – Sustainable, design-rich linoleum for classrooms, corridors and stairwells that need to handle heavy daily use without losing their look.
- Flotex – Flocked textile flooring. Ideal for classrooms, libraries and IT labs, combining comfort, acoustics, and hygiene.
- Step safety – Ensures safe movement in specialised classrooms like woodwork, food technology and bathrooms.
- Eternal – General-purpose vinyl built for a full school day of foot traffic, bag drags and chair scrapes, without showing wear year after year. Available to completely customise with your school's colours.
- Forbo adhesive-free flooring solutions: Minimise downtime during refurbishments and provide flexibility for future school upgrades.
Sports hall & gym areas
Sports and multipurpose hall flooring key considerations should be safe, resilient for gyms and activity spaces.
Recommended flooring solution
- Flotex – Flocked textile flooring is hygienic, acoustically effective, ideal for gyms, indoor multi-purpose halls and activity spaces. Flotex has 100% impermeable backing and slip-resistant in both wet and dry to ensure the safety of students.
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If you’d like to see how others have brought their Education projects to life, explore our case studies. You’ll find real-world examples across Early learning, kindergartens, primary, high and universities designed with Forbo flooring.