Case Study: Kent School District achieves five‑minute, 99%+ accurate inventory audits and theft recovery with Absolute Software

Kent School District uses Absolute to inventory computers and crack down on notebook thieves

Kent School District in Kent, Washington serves more than 27,000 K–12 students across 40 buildings and had grown to a 4:1 student-to-computer ratio with plans for 1:1. As its mobile device population expanded (12,000+ notebooks and desktops), the IT team struggled with theft, accurate inventories, equitable device distribution and a state requirement to physically audit each computer annually—an effort that previously took 10 staff about three months to complete.

By deploying Absolute with factory‑installed Persistence and using the Absolute Customer Center, Kent SD gained real‑time visibility into each device’s location, user, hardware/software, antivirus status and tamper activity. Audits that once took months now run as five‑minute reports with over 99% accuracy, automated compliance reporting speeds refresh planning (2,500–3,000 devices per summer), and Absolute’s investigations team has helped recover stolen machines.

Kent School District

Thuan Nguyen

Executive Director of Information Technology