School & University Electronics Recycling & ITAD
Electronics recycling and IT asset disposition built for K-12 districts, colleges, and universities nationwide. Data destruction aligned to NIST SP 800-88, FERPA-aware handling of student records on retired devices, and certificate-backed documentation for every pickup.
- Data Destruction Aligned to NIST SP 800-88
- Secure Recycling & Chain of Custody
- Free pickup for qualifying business volumes
Device retirements that keep pace with the school year
STS Electronic Recycling operates R2v3 certified processing facilities in Jacksonville, Texas and Houston, Texas, and provides electronic waste disposal and IT asset disposition for K-12 districts, community colleges, and universities nationwide. Data destruction is performed in accordance with NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2, with serial-number-specific certificates of destruction issued on completion to support district and campus recordkeeping obligations, including those under FERPA.
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What Does STS Handle for School and University IT Teams?
STS provides data destruction, asset liquidation, and multi-campus logistics sized for the equipment cycles schools and universities actually run: annual Chromebook and laptop refreshes, lab and classroom turnovers, and full building or campus decommissioning, each closed out with a serialized Certificate of Destruction.
Data Destruction
Sanitization aligned to NIST SP 800-88
Asset Liquidation
Value recovery on fleet refreshes
Multi-Campus Logistics
Coordinated district and campus pickup
Certified Data Destruction for Student and Staff Devices
NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 sets out Clear, Purge, and Destroy as the federal sanitization categories for media containing sensitive data, and defers to IEEE 2883 for technique detail. Our data destruction services implement verified overwrite, degaussing, and physical shredding, with verification documentation for every device processed, from Chromebooks and classroom desktops to administrative servers.
FERPA requires schools to protect the privacy of student education records, and retired devices carrying local grade books, assessment files, or cached records fall within that obligation. Our destruction process produces a serial-number-specific Certificate of Destruction for every asset, giving the district or registrar's office a record that ties each device to its disposition.
NIST SP 800-88 Wipe
Sanitization performed in accordance with the current federal data sanitization standard
Verified Overwrite
Single verified overwrite pass with read-back confirmation on every device
Degaussing
Magnetic field erasure for legacy magnetic media still in circulation in some AV and media labs
Physical Shredding
On-site or facility-based destruction with a Certificate of Destruction issued on completion
Asset Liquidation for Fleet Refreshes
When a district or university replaces a Chromebook, laptop, or desktop fleet on cycle, the retired units still carry resale value. Our computer liquidation process includes item-by-item inventory with serial-number capture, fair market valuation of functional units, and data sanitization before any device is remarketed.
Recovery credits from liquidation can be applied against the cost of the pickup and disposition engagement, which matters for budget-constrained technology departments managing annual refresh cycles across many buildings.
Fair Market Valuation
Assessment of functional equipment based on current market conditions and specifications
Asset Remarketing
Remarketing channels with complete data sanitization before resale
Budget Offset
Recovery credits that help offset the cost of district-wide disposition
ESG / Sustainability Reporting
Documentation formatted for district or university sustainability reporting
Multi-Campus and Multi-Building Logistics
District technology departments often coordinate pickups across many school buildings; universities often coordinate across departments and residence halls. Equipment collected is staged locally and transported under chain-of-custody documentation to an identified R2v3 certified processing facility in Jacksonville, Texas or Houston, Texas.
A single consolidated report ties every device across every building back to its pickup and certificate of destruction, replacing one record per site.
Multi-Site Coordination
Pickups across multiple school buildings or campus departments with consolidated reporting
Chain of Custody
Documentation from pickup through processing with audit-ready records
Consolidated Reporting
One report across every building or department in a single engagement
Certificate of Destruction
Serialized, per-device, issued on completion of the engagement
Built Around How Districts and Campuses Retire Equipment
School and university technology departments retire equipment on predictable but high-volume cycles: annual Chromebook refreshes, lab turnovers, and periodic building or campus decommissioning. Each cycle produces devices that once held student and staff records and needs a documented path from pickup to disposition. When evaluating ITAD providers, technology directors at school districts and universities prioritize certified processing and downstream documentation.
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Scaled for District and Campus Volume
Our 250,000 sq ft Jacksonville, Texas facility, alongside our Houston, Texas facility, processes district-wide and campus-wide decommissioning projects with multi-site coordination.
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FERPA-Aware Handling
Secure, transparent, sustainable processing; data destruction aligned to NIST SP 800-88; and documentation designed to support a district's or university's recordkeeping obligations under FERPA.
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One Point of Contact
Technology directors managing multiple buildings or departments typically want a single point of contact and serial-number-specific certificates of destruction that match their internal asset tags.
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Value Recovery on Retired Devices
Fair market value assessment on functional equipment helps offset the cost of annual refresh cycles through our IT asset disposition (ITAD) and liquidation services.
Every device a school or university retires holds student or staff data
From classroom Chromebooks to administrative servers, we process the equipment types that make up a typical K-12 or higher-ed technology inventory.
Computing Equipment
Mobile & Network
Office Equipment
The standards your business office will ask about
Our certifications and processing standards are built around the data security and recordkeeping expectations that apply to school and university electronics disposal.
Secure Recycling
RIOS certification, and ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 held through the RIOS-integrated management system, cover our environmental management and processing controls company-wide.
NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2
Federal data sanitization standard applied to devices carrying student assignments, staff records, and administrative data, with full verification reporting.
Chain of Custody
Documentation designed to support FERPA recordkeeping expectations for student education records on retired devices, with a serial-number-specific Certificate of Destruction for every unit.
Frameworks referenced in district and campus policy: FERPA • COPPA
Request Compliance DocumentationThe same documented process, at district and university volume
A full building or campus decommission can run into the hundreds or thousands of devices. The figures below describe STS company-wide, in the most recent full reporting period.
What school and university IT teams ask first
Looking for ITAD services, data destruction standards, or multi-campus logistics for a K-12 district or university? Here's what technology directors ask first.
What data destruction methods do you use for school-issued devices?
We provide multiple sanitization methods including erasure aligned to NIST SP 800-88, verified single-pass overwrite, degaussing for magnetic media, and certified physical shredding, including hard drive destruction for drives pulled from decommissioned servers. Every device processed receives a Certificate of Destruction.
Can you coordinate pickup across multiple school buildings or campuses?
Yes. We coordinate pickups across multiple buildings or campus departments with a single consolidated report and consistent documentation for every location in the engagement.
How do you support FERPA requirements for retired devices?
Devices are sanitized in accordance with NIST SP 800-88, and every unit receives a serialized Certificate of Destruction. That documentation is designed to support a district's or university's recordkeeping obligations under FERPA for student education records.
What certifications and standards does STS maintain?
STS holds RIOS certification, with ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 held through the RIOS-integrated management system, and operates R2v3 certified processing facilities in Jacksonville, Texas and Houston, Texas.
Do you offer value recovery for Chromebook or laptop fleet refreshes?
Yes. Our asset liquidation services include fair market value assessment on functional equipment from annual refresh cycles, with recovery credits that can help offset disposal costs.
What about devices from a campus health center?
For universities with on-campus health services, our destruction process can support a covered entity's media-disposal and media-reuse procedures under HIPAA, documented the same way as every other device: by serial number, with a Certificate of Destruction on completion.
Still Have Questions?
Our team is ready to discuss your district's or university's equipment disposition needs.
Where Your Equipment Is Processed
STS Electronic Recycling, Inc. is headquartered in Jacksonville, Texas, and has served schools, businesses, healthcare systems, and government agencies across all 50 states since 2010.
Equipment collected nationwide is staged locally and transported to one of our two R2v3 certified processing facilities in Jacksonville, Texas and Houston, Texas, where all data destruction and material recovery takes place.
The Certificate of Destruction, issued on completion, lists each device by serial number with the sanitization method recorded against it.
Ready to Retire Your School or University's IT Equipment?
Free pickup for qualifying school and university equipment volumes. R2v3 certified processing facilities in Jacksonville, Texas and Houston, Texas support districts and campuses nationwide.
